A former Montgomery County man with a long history of violent threats against law enforcement and judges is facing new charges in Bucks County for threatening to kill four judges who were involved in his previous court cases.
Bucks County Detectives allege that Joseph Supik II, 35, sent the threatening letter from the central Pennsylvania state prison where he was previously incarcerated to the county Clerk of Courts office in July.
In the letter, which contained numerous grammatical and spelling errors, Supik identified himself as a “staff sergeant" and stated he was going to kill the judges “for the time they took from me away from my wife and kids in North Philly,” according to an affidavit of probable cause.
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“I am gonna make it to the point they will never take another person from there (sic) familys. (sic) I am a highly trainned (sic) military member with a lot of experience under my belt.”
Supik previously identified himself as a former U.S. Marine, former military police and former Philadelphia sheriff department employee in threatening letters he sent Bucks County officials.
Three of the four Bucks County judges that Supik threatened sentenced him in 2022 and 2025 after he was convicted on terrorist threat-related charges and the fourth judge was assigned to Supik for his probation/parole violation hearings, the affidavit said.
Supik wrote that if his letter was found to be a threat, he wanted to be charged, but he did not want to speak to detectives. He also requested that he appear in-person in court hearings, “not by video for no hearings,” the affidavit said, quoting the letter.
In the letter, Supik also noted that he was no longer receiving mental health treatment.
When a Pennsylvania State Police investigator spoke with Supik in September, he denied writing the letter, but said he was upset with Bucks County for taking money from his books to pay his fines, the affidavit said.
Supik is charged with four felony charges of retaliation against a prosecutor or judicial official and four misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats.
Supik, who is currently incarcerated at SCI Forest in north-central Pennsylvania, had not been arraigned as of Oct. 14, according to the public court docket.
Public court records show that Supik has been arrested 45 times in nine counties across Pennsylvania since 2009, mostly for terroristic threat-related and harassment charges.
He is currently awaiting a court appearance later this month in Clarion County where he faces eight misdemeanor charges of terroristic threats and harassment from 2024.
In January an Armstrong County judge sentenced Supik to five to 24 months incarceration after he pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges of terroristic threats from 2024.
A Bucks County judge sentenced Supik in 2022 to up to 23 months in prison for writing letters where he threatened to kill Bucks County courthouse employees, a police chief, the DA and blow up the building.
When he wrote those letters in 2021, Supik was incarcerated in a state prison in Centre County, where he was serving time for making threats and harassment.
In his 2021 letter Supik specifically mentioned that he was seeking “payback” against the county court system, but he had no prior record of arrest in Bucks County.
He was sentenced in 2022 to 9 to 23 months in jail followed by three years of probation after he pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charges. The judge also ordered him to get mental health treatment and not contact any Bucks County employee.
In 2024 he wrote another series of letters threatening to blow up the Bucks County courthouse and kill local and county law enforcement employees.
He also allegedly threatened to kill, and blow up the houses of the police chief of Doylestown, a senior judge, and the district attorney, and rape the police chief’s wife.
Last year, Supik was sentenced in separate threat-related cases by separate Bucks County judges after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges.
He was ordered to serve one to two years incarceration in one case and he was given a sentence of nine to 48 months incarceration that would be served after he completed the one to two year sentence in the other case.
As part of the most recent Bucks County sentences Supik was ordered not to have contact with county employees, take anger management classes and undergo a mental health evaluation.
Crime and Courts Reporter Jo Ciavaglia can be reached at jciavaglia@gannett.com
This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: Man with history of making threats targeted Bucks County judges: Cops
