A Lancaster Township couple is suing a Pittsburgh business owner and the fired Lancaster Township police chief for a series of bizarre actions the family said left them traumatized.

In a lawsuit filed Nov. 1, Richard and Amy Wallace say former Lancaster Township Police Chief David Sitler caused them emotional distress, invaded their privacy and violated their rights under the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.

The suit also lists assault, battery, breach of contract and other allegations against Robert Boback, Tiversa cofounder and CEO.

Tiversa collects information from the deep and dark Webs in order to “provide cyber threat intelligence, remediation and risk management services to consumers, companies, and government agencies,” according to the company's website.

Richard Wallace began his employment at Tiversa in 2007 as a cyber-forensic security analyst. According to the lawsuit, Boback's “bizarre behavior” began shortly thereafter and lasted until 2014, when Wallace was fired.

In addition to making racist and sexist jokes on a daily basis, Boback told Wallace that his wife was having an affair with one of the Wallace's neighbors, asked Amy Wallace to wear her military uniform to the Tiversa office to make it appear that the company had government contracts and then threatened to report the retired Army major for impersonating a military officer, promised Richard Wallace a $30,000 commission that never materialized and engaged in other unprofessional and strange behavior, according to the lawsuit.

But, the Wallaces claim, Boback's behavior soon turned menacing. He began pointing a handgun at Wallace to threaten him.

The Wallaces also claim that Boback sexually assaulted Richard Wallace four times while he was working with Boback for Tiversa — including an incident in which Boback allegedly undressed and climbed into bed with Wallace to attempt to grope him while the men stayed in a hotel for a work conference.

Wallace claims in the suit that he hid and slept in a stairwell on one trip with Boback to avoid sharing a room, and that Boback became angry when Wallace used his own money to pay for a separate room on another occasion.

In another instance, Wallace claimed Boback attempted to force him to perform a sex act while Boback drove his car on Interstate 79.

Boback also tried to coerce Wallace into lying during a deposition in a federal proceeding by pointing a firearm at him and saying “No, this is what you're going to say” when Wallace said he would not lie under oath, according to the lawsuit.

Boback fired Wallace in February 2014 for refusing to lie under oath, according to the lawsuit, but continued using “many intimidation tactics” for more than a year in an attempt to convince Wallace to lie in the May 2015 proceeding.

Those tactics, according to the lawsuit, include trying to run Wallace off the road on I-79, secretly installing a surveillance camera on the couple's property, having the Wallaces receive visits at their home by men claiming to be investigative agents who asked to come inside the home, ringing of the doorbell and opening of the closed garage door multiple times, and the placement of threatening notes around the couple's property and in the mailbox.

Between 2014 and 2016, several of Wallace's former coworkers contacted him to relate that Boback had asked David Sitler, at that time the Lancaster Township police chief, to “keep an eye on” Wallace, according to the lawsuit.

The suit said Sitler then directed his police officers to pull the couple's daughter out of class on two occasions to embarrass her, sat in the Wallace's driveway or the driveway of a neighbor to intimidate the family, behaved aggressively toward Amy Wallace and her daughter when they visited the police station to ask Sitler to stop harassing them, and broke the township municipal building's door off its hinges in anger after Amy Wallace said “Say hi to Bob (Boback) for me” to Sitler upon leaving the visit.

Sitler was fired from the police department on Oct. 28, 2016, after an incident involving the alleged use of excessive force in the arrest of a township man.

The suit asks for unspecified punitive damages.

Court documents did not identify attorneys for Boback and Sitler, neither of whom could be reached as of press time Monday.

Jessica Tully, an attorney with the Lindsay Law Firm, is representing the Wallaces.