Bail is set at $50,000 for a woman accused of threatening to kill a man with a knife in Chehalis on Wednesday, Jan. 8.
Barbara Anne Hasse, 62, of Chehalis, was charged Thursday, Jan. 9, in Lewis County Superior Court with one count of felony harassment. Arraignment is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 16.
Hasse was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail at approximately 2:34 p.m. on Jan. 8 after officers with the Chehalis Police Department responded to a call in the 200 block of Southwest John Street at approximately 2:15 p.m. that afternoon, according to Chehalis Police Department call logs and Lewis County Jail records.
The victim reported that a female, who was later allegedly identified as Haase, was “in front of his residence, waving a knife around (and) saying ‘I’m going to kill you,’” according to court documents.
According to the victim, Haase yelled at him “something along the lines of ‘Do you want to die? I got a knife, come over here and I’ll cut your throat, I’ll kill you,’” according to court documents.
The victim reported that Haase had contacted him several times before the incident on Wednesday and has repeatedly tried to sleep on his porch.
When contacted by officers and asked if she had a knife, Haase allegedly said “yeah” and handed over a folding purple chrome knife without incident.
While being searched during the arrest, officers reportedly found “three other knives, one of which was a kitchen knife and the other two being ‘Rambo’-style knives,” inside Haase’s backpack and luggage tote, according to court documents.
“I have great concern for community safety,” Judge Joely Yeager said of Hasse’s case on Thursday, referencing the knives officers allegedly found in Hasse’s possession.
Haase denied the allegations on Thursday, saying “I don’t even know him” several times during her preliminary hearing.
An anti-harassment no-contact order protecting the victim is in place.
