A Texas man faces federal charges after authorities claim he threatened a television station in Bryan, calling one employee a "dead man walking" and saying that he wanted to burn the building down.

Jason Eric Bewley (Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office)

Jason Eric Bewley, 47, of Bryan was indicted in April on two counts of transmitting threats through interstate communications but managed to elude authorities until his arrest in late June near Charlotte, N.C.

Bewley's indictment alleges that in May 2017 he emailed Mike Wright, the station manager at KBTX-TV, saying, "It's too bad you're a dead man walking … I will split your skull open."

About a month later, the indictment says, Bewley called the station and told the person who answered the phone, in part, "I'll come down there and rip your eyes out and skull [expletive] you." He added, "I'll burn the [expletive] building to the ground," the indictment says.

Bewley's history with the CBS affiliate in Bryan runs back to at least October 2008, when authorities say he threw a cinder block through a glass door at the station after hurling it at the windshield of a KBTX van. He also broke the mirrors on two station employees' vehicles.

The Eagle of Bryan-College Station reported that he chased employees around the parking lot and also caused "a minor disturbance" at the newspaper's newsroom the same day.

He pleaded guilty to criminal mischief and was sentenced to four years of deferred-adjudication probation. Bewley also was ordered to complete 100 hours of community service, pay $2,630.97 of restitution, stay away from the TV station's studio and to not have contact with any KBTX employee.

Authorities have not elaborated on the origin of Bewley's feud with the local media group.

Bewley remained in the Mecklenburg County, N.C., jail on Tuesday, awaiting extradition to Texas, where he's due in federal court on Friday.

Last week, a Maryland man who had a long-running grudge against The Capital in Annapolis stormed the newspaper's office and killed five employees before police arrested him.