The man involved in a standoff with law-enforcement officers last week in Washington was arrested on several charges by the Washington Police Department on Tuesday.

Joseph Gary Gautier, 33, of 320 E. 12th St., faces charges of making a false bomb report (a felony), discharging a firearm in the city limits and communicating threats. Gautier was placed in the Beaufort County Detention Center under a $250,000 bond, according to a news release issued by the police department Tuesday. He remained incarcerated as of 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to a jail officer.

“This arrest occurred without incident. Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, no additional information is available at this time. Further inquiries will be referred to the District Attorney’s Office due to the pending prosecution,” reads the release.

Gautier is scheduled to appear for a probable-cause hearing in District Court at 9:30 a.m. June 30.

The arrest warrant for making a false bomb report and discharging a firearm in the city reads that Gautier “did communicate a report by calling the Washington Police Department … knowing and having reason to know the report to be false and there was located in a house the doors were booby trapped with grenades and his backyard has ordinances (ordnance) a device designed to destroy and damage the house by explosion, blasting and burning.”

The warrant, issued June 15, also notes that Magistrate Donald R. Sadler found probable cause that Gautier fired his 30-caliber Ruger handgun into the air and ground while in the city limits.

The arrest warrant for communicating threats reads, “The threat was communicated to Cliff Hales by telling him ‘I see you and I’m going in my house to get my 7mm to shoot you, your vest won’t stop anything I got.’ He also fired a weapon in the air and advised Cliff Hales ‘The next one’s gonna be in your head.’”

The warrant, issued June 20, also reads that “the threat was made in a manner and under circumstances which would cause a reasonable person to believe that the threat was likely to be carried out and the person threatened believed that the threat would be carried out.”

After a nine-hour standoff June 15, Gautier was taken into custody and transported to Beaufort County Medical Center for evaluation.

The standoff began around 8 a.m. June 15 and ended about 4:45 p.m. just before rush hour.

Gautier placed a call to the police telecommunications center early that morning, according to police Chief Mick Reed. Gautier “expressed some displeasure over some issues regarding his environment,” Reed said that afternoon, adding those issues did not involve law enforcement or the City of Washington.

One man at the scene, Carter Leary, a relative of Gautier, was taken away in a marked car belonging to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office. Leary was charged with resisting a public officer and detained in the Beaufort County Detention Center that afternoon, according to an officer there. Leary was released from the jail by the afternoon of June 16.

Leary lives near the house where Gautier was holed up, according to residents in the area.

Making a bomb threat in North Carolina is a Class H felony. The presumptive prison term for a Class H felony is up to three years in prison, unless otherwise specified by state law, according to North Carolina’s General Statutes.

Communicating threats is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. A city ordinance prohibits the discharge of firearms in the city limits, except in specific situations such as defending one’s self or one’s property.

Possible punishments for communicating threats and discharging a firearm in the city limits were not immediately clear Tuesday afternoon.