Philadelphia Man Charged With Threatening Two State Troopers After Court Ruling

William David Wilson, 39, of North Park Avenue in Philadelphia, allegedly threatened to have two Pennsylvania State Police troopers killed in the hallway of the Union County Courthouse in Lewisburg on March 31, moments after a judge ruled against him in a suppression hearing.

According to charges filed by Trooper Brett Harvey of the PSP Milton barracks through the Lewisburg office of District Judge Jeffrey Rowe, Wilson exited the courtroom after Judge Michael Piecuch denied his motion to suppress evidence and, within earshot of the troopers, announced his intentions. As Troopers Luke Hook and Tyler Bierly walked past him, Wilson allegedly said, "That's fine. I'll get some hungry boys down here and shoot 'em," then repeated, "Yeah, yeah, them hungry boys." An unidentified woman was with Wilson at the time.

Hook and Bierly were involved in the original incident from June 2025 that led to Wilson's pending case before Judge Piecuch.

State police charged Wilson with two felony counts of intimidation of a witness and four misdemeanors: two counts of terroristic threats and two counts of obstructing the administration of law. He was already free on $75,000 bail from his original case, which includes a felony child endangerment charge alongside drug- and alcohol-related offenses.

The alleged threat landing inside the courthouse itself adds a layer of gravity to the case. Explicit statements to harm specific, named officers in the immediate aftermath of an adverse ruling place the remarks squarely in the category prosecutors typically pursue as felony intimidation, particularly when the targeted individuals are witnesses in the very proceeding where the threat was made.

Wilson was scheduled for a pretrial conference on his original charges and was set to appear before Judge Piecuch again on April 10, 2026. The new charges will run parallel to that case as it moves forward in Union County Court of Common Pleas.