A former Marine threatened to have witnesses and victims harmed to keep them from testifying in his upcoming trial on rape, abduction and robbery charges, prosecutors said in court Thursday.

Jorge “George” Torrez is accused of robbing and trying to abduct one woman and kidnapping and raping another in separate incidents in February, when he was stationed at Henderson Hall. He has also been linked through DNA to the killings of two young girls near Chicago, but has not been charged in that case.