FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. — A Bucks County man accused of murdering and beheading his elderly father was arrested near Fort Indiantown Gap in Lebanon County, according to police.
Justin Mohn, 32, of Levittown, allegedly posted a video on YouTube that showed him brandishing his father's severed head, police in Middletown, Bucks County claim.
During the 14-minute video, entitled "Mohn's Militia: Call to Arms for American Patriots," the suspect allegedly held up the victim's head and identified it as that of his father, who he said "is now in hell for eternity," police said.
Middletown Police Captain Pete Feeney said he'd never seen a crime of this nature.
"There is occasionally a homicide like like there is anywhere, but they're few and far between," he said. "It's a very safe community. You know, again, we do occasionally have a homicide, but it's it's very rare. Once every couple of years, maybe. And an incident like this, you know, this degree, I've never seen it happen here."
Police said they began investigating Wednesday when Mohn's mother discovered the headless body of Michael Mohn lying in the downstairs bathtub of their Middletown home at about 6:59 p.m.
The decapitated body was surrounded by a large amount of blood, police said. Investigators also discovered a machete and multiple pairs of clear rubber gloves with blood on them in a bedroom downstairs, according to police.
The victim's head was found in a plastic bag that was in a cooking pot in the kitchen of the home, according to police.
Mohn's mother said Michael Mohn and her son were the only people at home when she left at about 2 p.m., and Michael Mohn's 2009 Toyota Corolla was in the driveway.
Both the car and her son were not present when she returned home and found her husband's body, she reported to police.
Investigators later learned about and watched the video on YouTube, which was posted by a user called @justinmohn6542. In the video, Justin Mohn appears and is wearing the same kind of clear rubber gloves found at the crime scene, according to police. Mohn appears to be reading from a pre-written script and can be heard typing at a keyboard in the video.
The room depicted in the video is the same room where the rubber gloves were found, police said.
Authorities pinged Mohn's cellphone near the Indiantown Gap National Cemetery in Lebanon County, and then pinged it again right outside the National Guard base in Lebanon County.
Mohn was arrested when the Fort Indiantown Gap Police Department observed a 2009 Toyota Corolla registered to his father near the base and officers found him walking on foot near office buildings, where they arrested him. Police say he was armed with a gun, and taken into custody around 9:25 p.m. on Jan. 30.
No one was injured while Mohn was on the base.
He is charged with first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse and possessing the instrument of crime.
Feeney said Mohn has a few prior incidents on his record, but nothing of a violent nature.
"We have a few incidents in our record system that we've come out (to the Mohns' home) for various, you know, minor things," he said. "I don't know the exact number. I believe it was like three is the total number we have and nothing of a violent nature, nothing, you know, that indicated anything like this."
Feeney said Mohn was arraigned at 4 a.m. and denied bail. He is being held in the Bucks County Correctional Facility.