COPPER CITY – A hearing on an alleged probation violation in Houghton County Circuit Court by the Copper City man involved in an armed standoff with police in April was postponed.

Jerome Flum, 65, had notified the court Friday morning he could not be at the hearing because his wife is ailing, said his attorney, David Gemignani.

Prosecutor Michael Makinen recommended resetting the hearing for another day. However, he said, Flum needs to understand his wife’s health cannot delay the hearing indefinitely.

“This matter has to be addressed,” he said.

Makinen said Flum had allegedly violated probation by refusing to open the door for a probation officer.

Flum was sentenced to two years probation in September. Flum, 65, was arrested in April after an armed standoff with police of almost 12 hours. He pleaded no contest in August to attempted felonious assault, a two-year high court misdemeanor. Six other charges were dismissed in exchange for the plea, including a 20-year count of threatening terrorism.

When a public works employee came to turn off Flum’s water over a delinquent bill in April, Flum told the employee to “get off my property or I’d blow his (expletive deleted) head off,” he said at his preliminary hearing. Flum said turning the water off would have threatened the health of his wife.

Flum also repeated the threat in a message to Copper City billing clerk Rachel Tober, and made calls to the offices of state Rep. Scott Dianda and U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow.

At Flum’s sentencing hearing, Tober detailed threats and anti-Semitic slurs Flum had made against her over the course of the past four years. The harassment included threatening to smash her head in with a post, distributing flyers against her and threatening to sue her for the “attempted murder” of his wife.

Under the terms of his probation, Flum is: forbidden from using any object as a weapon; forbidden from owning, using or having under his control a weapon; barred from being in the company of people who possess those items; subject to searches of himself and his property without a warrant if his field agent has cause to believe he has violated probation; not allowed to contact the Copper City employees and officials he threatened; subject to six months of GPS curfew and pay for the cost of the system and any damage done to it.