POWELL COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) – A Kentucky man appeared in court Wednesday, accused of using a Halloween display to threaten government officials.

WLEX reports Stephan Marcum is facing charges of terroristic threatening and intimidating a witness.

Marcum is back in court over decorations that police and public officials believe crossed a line form being just a seasonal display to an alleged threat.

Trooper Austin Miller with the Kentucky State Police says, “The concern there was five trash bags of bodies, one hanging from a noose, which was the district judge.”

At this preliminary hearing, a trooper testified about responding to Marcum’s home for a report of fake body bags in his yard labeled as five public officials.

The special prosecutor said Marcum put them up four days after he was

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