In a police interview played Wednesday in Boulder County Court, Daniel Shea calmly explained that he shopped online for a variety of items to outfit himself as a FBI agent, including handcuffs and a hat and patch bearing the agency’s initials.

“I had an FBI hat on and an FBI patch on,” Shea said. “You can buy them off eBay. The same with the hat. It was like a $9 hat. I never identified myself as an FBI officer. I also had handcuffs from Amazon.”

He told police they could find all of the items, including a 9 mm pistol he said was not loaded, in a bag at his brother’s home near Lyons, where Shea had been arrested after he allegedly took two employees of a Boulder web-design firm hostage and assaulted them.

Shea, 45, faces more than a dozen charges, including burglary, robbery, kidnapping, extortion, assault, impersonating a police officer and felony menacing.

Prosecutors allege Shea, angry at employees of the web-design firm Goozmo, went to the company’s office disguised as a FBI agent and demanded a $50,000 refund for their work on a yoga-themed website. The website, yogible.com, is still online and features a statement from Shea regarding yoga.

Following the incident, the men fled to Boulder police headquarters despite being scared to do so because Shea allegedly told them he had hired people to watch and then kill them if they crossed him.

Boulder County Judge Elizabeth Brodsky ruled on Wednesday there was probable cause to bind over the case over for trial in District Court. Shea is expected to be arraigned on June 1 and remains in custody on a $1 million bond.

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