NEBRASKA CITY – An Otoe County man is charged with terroristic threats using a backhoe and loader, but says he was not terrorizing anyone.

Otoe County sheriff’s deputies responded to a south Eighth Road residence April 30 where they made contact with 78-year-old Glen Royal of Palmyra on his loader. Royal says he was working to install erosion control rock, called rip rap, on land that the sheriff's office described as unsurveyed. The property boundary is in dispute with his neighbor, 31-year-old Cody Beecham.

Beecham has a protection order out against Royal.

In an arrest affidavit, a sheriff's deputy says Royal is suspected of putting his loader to the ground and picking up Beecham and his wife while they were sitting in the UTV, but Royal says that is not true. He says they parked the UTV on the road so he could not pass. Royal said they were standing nearby, videotaping,  when he lifted the UTV a few inches and pushed it a short distance so he could get past.

Royal said the UTV was parked in such a way that he could not go down the county road to complete his work.

Beecham told the deputy he was afraid Royal was going to harm him or flip the UTV.

While the deputy was on the scene, the affidavit says, Royal called the sheriff's office to report that Beecham's UTV was in his way on the county road.

Court records do not list an attorney for Royal in the Otoe County case.