An Ohio man had some choice words — confident, vituperative, sort of loud — when he appeared in court earlier this week. What should have been a relatively dull affair quickly became bedlam.

Zachary Heckathorn, 33, stands accused of one count each of assault , criminal trespass, and aggravated menacing , according to the Belmont County Sheriff's Office and Martins Ferry Police Department .

The charges stem from an incident on Nov. 14, when the defendant allegedly entered Rethreads, a free store run by the Grace Presbyterian Church on Hanover Street in Martins Ferry — a small town located near the border with West Virginia and roughly 60 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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