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VIENNA – A man arrested Tuesday after a standoff in Vienna has been charged with threats of terrorist acts and retaliation against public officials.

Joseph David Cody, 37, of Vienna, is being held at the North Central Regional Jail on a $500,000 bond, according to the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation website.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Wood County Magistrate Court, Vienna Police officers were initially dispatched to Cody’s residence at 1201 Ninth St., Apt. 16, in reference to a domestic disturbance. They determined Cody was in the residence alone.

When officers attempted to make contact by knocking on the door and identifying themselves, Cody reportedly yelled for them to leave, refused assistance and made threats to kill them, the complaint says. “Officers cleared the scene in an attempt to de-escalate,” it says.

Vienna Police Chief Carl Powell said it was “obviously a mental crisis situation” on Tuesday.

The complaint says officers were called back to the scene in reference to continued disturbances and were advised by a dispatcher the man was outside with a knife and had threatened to harm people if police returned. Contacted by telephone, he refused to come outside and made more threatening comments.

A family member told police Cody communicated his intent to harm others and burn the apartment, the complaint says.

The department’s Special Response Team was dispatched, and a negotiator used a megaphone to ask the man to exit the apartment unarmed, the complaint says.

When he did exit, he was brandishing a knife and refused commands to drop the weapon as he stepped in the officers’ direction, the complaint says. An officer fired a foam projectile, which struck the defendant, before he went back inside.

The Special Response Team, with assistance from the Parkersburg Police Department SWAT Team, deployed chemical munitions into the apartment, at which time Cody allegedly swung a shovel at officers and broke a living room window, the complaint says.

After other attempts to get him to leave and a disconnected phone call, the Special Response Team made entry into the apartment and took Cody into custody, the complaint says.