Police reports describe more than 100 voicemails and screenshots containing threats and abuse.
ORTING, Wash. — A Pierce County man is facing a felony harassment charge after prosecutors said he made repeated threats against employees connected to the Washington Soldiers Home in Orting, including a threat to kill a former manager.
Charging documents filed Monday in Pierce County Superior Court accuse Dustin Harold Wade, 43, of felony harassment.
Prosecutors allege Wade knowingly threatened to kill the former manager and that the threat put her in reasonable fear it would be carried out.
According to court documents, an Orting police investigation began March 11, when a woman came to the department to report harassment.
Investigators said the woman worked as a program coordinator for the transitional housing program at the Old Soldiers Home and told officers Wade had been a client in the program in 2023.
After leaving the program, police said, Wade began calling her cell phone and office phone with threatening messages.
According to the report, the woman told police she later discovered a blocked voicemail folder on her phone that contained 172 messages from Wade dating back to October 2024.
Police wrote that some of the messages included threats against her, her family and employees at the Orting location.
The report also says Wade had recently called from a second number while trying to reach her staff members.
Investigators wrote that Wade also contacted an intake coordinator he had never met and threatened to kill people at the facility.
According to court documents, voicemails were being left as late as March 7, 2026, saying he was going to show up and kill employees.
The reports say staff members were advised to come to the station and provide statements and copies of the threatening messages they had received.
In a follow-up report, police said a USB flash drive turned in March 27 contained voicemails from 2024 through 2026 in which Wade threatened to kill multiple people tied to the Old Soldiers Home.
Investigators wrote that there were more than 100 voicemails and screenshots containing threats and verbal abuse.
The same report says some of the more recent messages from March 2026 included claims about weapons and ammunition and threats to kill employees within a week.
According to court documents, Wade told investigators he knew the former manager and acknowledged he had called her, though he said he did not remember the details of what he said.
Investigators wrote that Wade later said he thought he had threatened her and, in a second call the same day, blamed the voicemails on a person he described as a “cult leader” connected to the government.
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