RUFFIN, N.C. – Bond for Joseph Linwood Irving has been set at $1,005,000

The 37-year-old Ruffin man held police at bay for nearly nine hours Wednesday after barricading himself inside his mobile home and threatening sheriff’s deputies with a shotgun. He eventually surrendered after police used tear gas to flush him out of the trailer. During the standoff, investigators say Irving phoned bomb threats to each high school in Rockingham County, to several governmental buildings and a McDonald’s. The calls lead to lockdown and searches but no bombs were found.

Irving is currently charged with three counts of misdemeanor cyberstalking; felony assault with a deadly weapon on government official; two counts of felony communicating threats of mass violence; two felony counts of false report of mass violence on education property; four counts of misdemeanor threatening phone calls; three felony counts of false bomb report to a public building; and one felony false bomb report.