A Lieutenant Colonel from Joint Base Lewis-McChord is being held in the Pierce County Jail after he allegedly threatened to blow up the state capitol in Olympia and pay a hit man $150,000 to kill his wife and a fellow officer.

According to probable cause documents obtained by KIRO7 Eyewitness News South Sound reporter Kevin McCarty, Lt. Col Robert Underwood told his daughter "he was going to do something crazy and it would be on the news, the world would know about it."  Court documents state Underwood is going through a "nasty divorce" with his wife and was angry because of a custody battle involving his children.

Probable cause documents state a woman Underwood is currently involved with went to his wife earlier this month warning her of the threat after he told her he "paid a hit man $150,000 to kill [his wife and fellow officer]."  She claims "He said the money is in foreign accounts and it would not be found."

The documents also state that woman borrowed Underwood's laptop and "l found that he had a picture of his teenage daughter, naked while sleeping in bed. She also found that he had searched the Internet for how to get teenagers drunk and have sex with them. She confronted the defendant about what she found and he told her, that her head was on the chopping block."

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Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Det. Ed Troyer told McCarty that Underwood also made threats to blow up the capitol building in Olympia as well as target unnamed government officials.

Underwood underwent a psychological evaluation recently according to court records but, "Although the defendant has been deployed multiple times, the military said he does not suffer from PTSD [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder]. However, when he was a young child he witnessed his mother kill his two siblings. She also shot the defendant multiple times and left him for dead."

Underwood was arrested Monday night and arraigned on three counts of felony harassment in Pierce County Superior Court this afternoon.  He pleaded not guilty and was ordered held on $250,000 bail.