A man is facing multiple charges after a bizarre Sunday morning standoff in Cody in which he allegedly claimed to have a bomb, threatened to kill police officers, accused them of being racist and wielded a metal crutch and other objects.

A judge set Scott M. Stevenson’s bond at $25,000 cash at a Tuesday morning hearing in Park County Circuit Court.

Stevenson, who is 34, faces four charges. They include three felonies — making terroristic threats, use of an alleged explosive device and assault on a peace officer — and a misdemeanor count of obstructive conduct in a governmental facility.

In court, Stevenson said he is disabled as a result of bipolar disorder and is homeless. He said he’s been living out of his pickup in the Cody Walmart parking lot.

Authorities say Stevenson drove that truck into a different parking lot — that of the Park County Law Enforcement Center — on Sunday morning. Two Cody officers and a Park County Sheriff’s Deputy were dispatched to the lot around 11:36 a.m. for a report of a man threatening to kill himself.

Responding Cody Police Sgt. Beau Egger found Stevenson wearing a hooded gray sweatshirt, “a pair of camo pattern military type fatigue pants” and what looked like a gas mask and a set of reflective snow sport goggles, Egger recounted in an affidavit written in support of the charges.

When Egger got out of his patrol vehicle, he says Stevenson flipped him off and motioned for him to come over and fight. As Egger started speaking with Stevenson, the man became “very irate” and asked the officer to shoot him, the affidavit says.

“I told him that was not going to happen and I didn’t want to do that,” Egger recounted in his report. “Stevenson exclaimed that I wouldn’t shoot a white person but only shoot black, Asian and Hispanic people.”

Stevenson — who is white — initially armed himself with a knife in each hand, but soon threw them onto the ground, Egger said. During the hour-long encounter, Stevenson also wielded a variety of other items that included a tire iron, an aluminum crutch and tire chains — and he threw some of them across the parking lot, too, Egger wrote.

Stevenson is alleged to have made a series of taunts and threats to police; that included saying he’d shoot the officers with their own guns and “could make explosives and throw them at us (police) and kill us all,” Egger wrote.

The threat of an explosive device led police to shut down traffic on nearby Wyo. Highway 120.

After consuming a handful of unknown pills, the affidavit says Stevenson began ripping apart some small packages and pouring their contents on his truck’s tailgate.

“Stevenson told us maybe he was making a bomb and that he was making a bomb,” Egger wrote.

A sheriff’s deputy reported also seeing Stevenson trying to light something on fire.

“Due to the totality of the circumstances and the threat to law enforcement and citizens, I made the decision to intervene and to stop Stevenson from his activities,” Egger wrote.

He began approaching Stevenson, yelling at the man to get down. Stevenson, the affidavit alleges, instead became more aggressive and motioned for Egger to get closer.

Egger then shot Stevenson with two less lethal shotgun rounds (also referred to as bean bags), hitting him in the upper chest and lower left leg.

The bean bag rounds “had little to no effect on Stevenson,” who stands just over 6 feet tall and weighs 320 pounds, Egger wrote. Stevenson then squared up to fight and Egger kicked him in his pelvis, forcing Stevenson back a few steps, the affidavit says. Stevenson tried retaliating with a punch to Egger’s head, but missed. Other officers then arrived, and Stevenson finally got on the ground.

He was arrested at around 12:34 p.m.

Stevenson was taken to West Park Hospital from the parking lot to be “assessed and treated,” Egger said. He was later released and booked into the Park County Detention Center on Monday morning.

At Tuesday’s court hearing, Deputy Park County prosecutor Branden Vilos said Stevenson had no prior criminal record. Vilos indicated Stevenson previously lived in places that included Indiana, Ohio and Casper; Stevenson said he’d been planning to move to Cody.

Vilos asked for bail to be set at $25,000.

“We do believe that Mr. Stevenson obviously poses a threat to the community,” the prosecutor said. He called Stevenson’s conduct “very concerning” and said there could be a flight risk “given Mr. Stevenson’s transient kind of lifestyle.”

Stevenson could be seen shaking his head in disagreement as Vilos made his recommendations, and he disputed the idea that he’s a flight risk. Stevenson said he had nowhere to go and that his family lived in Florida.

“There’s no way I can get there if I wanted to — and I don’t even want to because I want to take care of all this stuff,” Stevenson said.

Circuit Court Judge Bruce Waters adopted Vilos’ recommendation.

“This is a fairly serious situation,” Waters said.

A preliminary hearing is tentatively set for July 21.

Cody police had to deal with an oddly similar situation — a man making suicidal statements and bomb threats outside the law enforcement center — late one night in September 2010. That man claimed to be a suicide bomber for the Taliban.

When he was uncooperative, the incident culminated with then-Assistant Cody Police Chief George Menig pulling off the handcuffed man’s clothes and shocking him with a Taser to get him to comply. After a mental evaluation, Juan Paul Flores ultimately accepted a plea deal in which an initial count of making terroristic threats was reduced to misdemeanor interference with a peace officer.

The now 62-year-old Flores later sued Menig for excessive force. The state of Wyoming agreed to pay $16,000 to settle Flores’ civil lawsuit in February.