COEUR d’ALENE — A Post Falls man accused of smashing windows with a baseball bat at the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office and threatening law enforcement over the weekend will undergo a mental health evaluation, a judge ordered Monday.

Ryan J. McClintock, 33, is charged with malicious injury to property and terrorism, both felonies. 

First District Judge Debra Heise ordered Monday that McClintock be held on $200,000 bail, citing the seriousness of the allegations. 

“What he did was alarming, but what he said was very alarming,” she said in court. 

Heise also ordered that McClintock undergo an evaluation to determine whether he can assist his legal counsel with his defense or understand the proceedings. If McClintock posts bail, he cannot be released from custody until the evaluation is complete. 

“It’s unusual for the (court-ordered mental health evaluation) request to come at this early stage of the proceedings, but on reading the affidavit, I think there’s certainly evidence to support it,” Heise said. 

Defense attorney James Siebe requested that the court order the evaluation. 

“This is a situation where the family had made repeated contact with law enforcement asking for assistance because they were concerned about Mr. McClintock’s mental health,” Siebe said. “In fact, I think the Post Falls police appeared at his house at least once and I know they took some firearms from the area.” 

Members of McClintock’s family were present in the courtroom Monday afternoon, while McClintock appeared via a video feed from jail.  

The charges stem from early Saturday evening, when multiple law enforcement agencies received tips that a man, later identified by police as McClintock, had posted Facebook videos in which he said he needed “people who are not f—ing afraid to die” to “take” the Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls police departments. He “vaguely asked for the Russian mafia, Mongols Motorcycle Club and Hells Angels Motorcycle Club” to assist him, according to court records. 

McClintock posted another video in which he said he planned to go to the Coeur d’Alene Police Department with a baseball bat and that he did not care if he died, according to court records. He also allegedly posted a video that showed him outside the sheriff’s office main entrance. 

Witnesses observed McClintock smashing windows at the sheriff’s office with a baseball bat, according to court records. Police also reviewed videos that appeared to show McClintock using a bat to break windows. 

Police later found McClintock “sprawled out on the ground” along Government Way, west of the fairgrounds, and arrested him without incident. 

According to court records, McClintock told police that he believed two pastors of different local churches were “pedophiles” and that Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris was protecting the pastors from prosecution. 

He allegedly told police he shattered windows at the sheriff’s office to draw attention to his allegations and that he believed his actions “would have changed the world.” 

“The state feels that the defendant poses a huge risk to himself and others, including law enforcement,” said prosecuting attorney Diana Eggert. “He’s clearly inciting violence and making open threats against several individuals.” 

Siebe pointed to McClintock’s “nonsensical” statements about his plans and said a police officer had said that McClintock’s behavior appeared consistent with mental illness. 

“There was something definitely wrong with him,” Siebe said of his client. 

Heise also entered a no-contact order that bars McClintock from approaching the pastors he allegedly threatened or their churches.