When a neighbor told Travis Spike Senner she was from Mexico, King County prosecutors say, he threatened to blow her up with a smoke detector and then, brandishing a small knife, chased her around her car until she ran inside her home and called police.

Last week, King County prosecutors charged Travis Spike Senner, 36, with malicious harassment and second-degree assault for the March 31 incident across from his apartment complex on I Street Northeast.

Senner remains jailed on $100,000 bail.

Here is what happened, according to the Auburn Police Department’s Certification for Determination of Probable Cause (CDPC).

According to the CDPC, the woman told police she was returning home at about 8:30 p.m., March 31, when she first noticed the tall, unshaven man on the street in front of her house.

According to the CDPC, the woman opened her automatic gate, parked, and was preparing to get out of her car when the man walked through the open gate and onto her property.

As the woman told police, the man began to yell at her, demanding to know where she was from. When she answered that she was from Mexico, the man grew angry, began to yell obscenities at her, and told her she needed to “go back to her country.”

According to what the woman told police, the man then removed a round, home smoke detector from his waist band, said it was a bomb and threatened to blow her up.

As the woman told police, the man then threw the smoke detector to the ground and became more enraged. As she continued to tell him to leave, she said, he walked up to her waste bin, opened it, and said he was going to “blow her head up.”

According to the CDPC, “Travis then turned toward her and removed a small, black folding knife, opening it, from his front pants pocket. (She) stated Travis told her to leave his state as he approached her with the knife open in his right hand. She said she ran from Travis, and he chased her around the front yard of the residence, yelling that he was going to stab her. (She) said she ran around the vehicle twice as Travis ran behind her, swinging the knife.”

According to the CDPC, the woman finally ran inside her home, locked the door and called 911. She told police that Senner remained in the front yard area for a short time, yelling profanities at her before he left the property northbound toward 8th Street Northeast.

According to the CDPC, when responding officers found Senner, he still had the knife on his person, but refused to speak with officers.

According to charging papers, Senner has criminal convictions in Washington, Georgia and Florida, the last for aggravated assault and kidnapping in 2010.