BAKER CITY — A Baker City man who apparently regretted the story he told police that landed his fiancee in jail Friday, Jan. 22, on a domestic violence charge later called 911 allegedly threatening to blow up a building if he also wasn’t arrested.

Baker City Police Chief Ray Duman said the incident started when officers responded to the couple’s home on a report of a disturbance and arrested Kellie Marrae Neary, 50, for fourth-degree assault constituting domestic violence. Police booked Neary into the Baker County Jail, which released her on bail.

Duman said about 2-1/2 hours after the arrest, David Allen Lyle, 49, called dispatch making threats.

“He said he was going to build a bomb and blow up a building if he was not arrested,” Duman said.

Lyle said he should be arrested because he had lied to police when they arrested Neary on the domestic violence charge, Duman said.

Because of the seriousness of Lyle’s threats, police took him to the jail and held him on suspicion of first-degree disorderly conduct and harassment. Under Oregon law, those charges apply when someone “initiated or circulated a report, concerning an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime, catastrophe or other emergency” and the threat “reasonably would be expected to cause alarm.”

Lyle, who police said was intoxicated when officers arrested him, was held at the jail for a time and later granted a conditional release with a date and time to appear in court.

Although Lyle, who has a prior background with explosives, made no specific reference to which building he planned to blow up, Duman said officers believed it was prudent to take him into custody.

“Anytime anybody is making a threat of that nature,” Duman said, “we have to take them seriously.”