A 26-year-old man from southwestern Ontario has been charged with uttering a death threat after the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, received a threatening email.

Police in Waterloo, Ont. said Friday that they were notified of the email by police in Santa Barbara, California. That's where Jackson made a court appearance this week -- in relation to the child molestation charges against him.

Santa Barbara police said the email was sent to the website of the Santa Maria Courthouse after 5 a.m. on Monday -- the same day Jackson appeared in court.

Police were able to trace the message back to Kitchener where local police became involved. Detectives raided a home in Kitchener on Thursday, taking a computer and related material with them.

Waterloo police are refusing to discuss the details of the message. It's unclear whether Jackson read it.

Adrian Poffley is scheduled to make a court appearance in relation to the charge on September 24.

Meanwhile, the Santa Maria courthouse that received the threatening email heard testimony Friday from the property manager of Jackson's Neverland ranch.

Joseph Marcus testified that sheriff's deputies went overboard when looking for evidence at the ranch last year.

Marcus said he studied the search warrant officials presented him and made sure they only went into the areas specified on the document.

He said he cooperated with officials when they ventured to areas not specified on the warrant because they said they were only doing so to establish that the locations were secure.

Marcus also said he was pressured to answer questions about Jackson.

"I initially refused to and said I wasn't really interested," Marcus testified. "I said, 'Do I have to answer questions?' and they said, 'No, if you have nothing to hide.' I said there's nothing to hide here. It is what it is."

Marcus' testimony is part of a pretrial hearing in which defense attorneys are trying to limit the evidence prosecutors can produce at Jackson's trial, scheduled to begin next January.

The 45-year-old King of Pop is charged with committing a lewd act upon a child, administering an intoxicating agent and conspiring to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion.

He has pleaded not guilty and is free on $3 million bail.