Man faces charge of threatening Stonehill

In court papers, State Police said that Sterlynn Robbins of North Branford, 23, sent text messages to a female student on March 17 and 18, warning that he planned to kill two staff members who had a role in disciplining him for two physical assaults he was found to have committed against students in 2007 and 2009.

Robbins faces a charge of transmission of a threat to injure the person of another.

“Im gonna kill them both I swear,’’ he allegedly texted the student, whom State Police said had been a friend of Robbins but had tried to end her relationship with him before receiving the dozen messages. “It’s not hard to get on campus and do what I need to.’’

The female student notified the employees mentioned in the text messages and the Stonehill Police Department of the threats on the same day that she received them, according to State Police. Stonehill said it acted immediately upon learning of the threats and issued a campuswide alert.

Robbins was permanently dismissed from Stonehill in spring 2009, after he was arrested by Stonehill police on assault charges, the school said in a statement. In 2007, he was found responsible for assaulting another student and ordered to take anger management classes. Robbins was also placed on deferred separation from residency, according to State Police.

In the March texts, he also allegedly said: “Yea do me a favor. Be at stonehill the day I blow it up and . . . kill those . . . people. The school has already stripped me of everything. I don’t even care if they try to kill me in my attempt. At least my pathetic life will be over.’’

Robbins faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, Ortiz said.

Robbins is being held in Connecticut, and a detention hearing will be continued today in US District Court in Connecticut, said Ortiz spokeswoman Christina DiIorio-Sterling. He is due back in US District Court in Boston March 28, she said.

Neal Riley can be reached at nriley@globe.com.