A college bus driver faces federal fees alleging he threatened and stalked an 8-year-previous boy in New Hampshire.

Michael Chick, 39, of Eliot, Maine, labored as a bus driver for 1st Pupil and drove routes in equally Greenland and Rye, New Hampshire, the Portsmouth Herald noted. 

In accordance to courtroom files, Chick gave a scholar at Greenland Central Faculty mobile phones with instructions to get inappropriate pics of himself, placed tracing products on his parents’ autos and manufactured a number of nighttime visits to their residence. The boy told investigators Chick employed a story about a team of criminals he identified as "The Team," who would get rid of his relatives, kidnap him and torture him if he did not comply with their needs.

The boy’s moms and dads documented what they regarded Chick’s obsession with their son in April and once again in May. Chick was reassigned to distinct bus routes, but ongoing to contact the boy, according to the court docket documents. The household claimed him to police again in July just after acquiring two mobile telephones in a lunchbox in the boy’s space.

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"Throughout a search of Chick’s car, investigators claimed they positioned a TracFone, a digital digicam, duct tape, rubber gloves, sweet (candy) liquor, candy, children’s outfits (which include underwear), children’s toys, a magnetic GPS car tracker together with his mobile cellular phone. Similar products were discovered in his area where he lived. At Chick’s home, surveillance cameras, TracFones, large plastic bags of children’s underwear, and other proof was located, authorities allege," the Portsmouth Herald described.

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Chick was arrested Friday night. He had an original visual appeal hearing in federal district court docket Monday afternoon. The Court purchased him detained pending a detention listening to scheduled for Aug. 18, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Workplace District of New Hampshire.

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WHD News attained out to university district Superintendent Steve Zadaravec for remark, but did not listen to again by the time this story was published. He did having said that, call the allegations "deeply about," according to The .

This make any difference was investigated by the Greenland Police Department, the Eliot, Maine Police Office, the New Hampshire Web Crimes From Small children Endeavor Power, and the Section of Homeland Security, Homeland Stability Investigations. The case is getting prosecuted by Assistant United States Legal professional Kasey Weiland.

Chick's lawyer, public defender Behzad Mirhashem, did not instantly answer to a ask for Wednesday from The .

The contributed to this report.