A Warren man is behind bars after allegedly assaulting and threatening to kill his father.

Bryan C. Steele, 39, 113 Front St., was charged with offenses including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon by Warren-based Pennsylvania State Police.

Troopers were dispatched at 3:20 p.m. on Sept. 4 and were informed by dispatch that the victim had been assaulted and that there was a knife involved. Arriving on scene, the victim reportedly told troopers that Steele “had a large kitchen style knife pressed to the lower left side of his back and was threatened by his son,” according to the affidavit of probable cause.

The alleged victim told troopers he has “been terrorized by his son for weeks” and told police that Steele “threatened to strike him earlier in the day with a piece of wood approximately four (to) five feet in length and three inches wide.”

He reported Steele “took his cell phone and drug him inside the residence so he could not alarm neighbors or contact the police” and alleged a “long altercation throughout most of the day” which ended when, the victim alleges, Steele “‘passed out,’ believed to have been from drugs.”

The victim continued to tell police about “multiple instances” where he was verbally and physically threatened by the victim. He related the knife incident and told troopers Steele said “I should kill you right now.” He told troopers Steele at one point “came into the room with a reciprocating saw and threatened him with that as well.”

He also told police Steele struck him in the head multiple times, placed his hand around his neck and held him down and made further threats. “Steele,” the affidavit states, “also choked the victim a second time, by wrapping a yellow bath towel around the victim’s neck” and the victim reported he made “multiple statements that he was going to kill him and burn the house down.”

Steele was charged, online court records show, with aggravated assault — attempts to cause or causes bodily injury with a deadly weapon, simple assault, harassment, strangulation, terroristic threats, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance.

Records show he was jailed on $60,000 bail with a preliminary hearing scheduled for Sept. 15.