ROCHESTER, N.H. – The man accused of taking hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office had been drinking heavily before the standoff and talked about his problems getting medical care, according to family interviews and a court document released Monday.

Leeland Eisenberg, 46, is accused of walking into the Clinton office on Friday with what appeared to be explosives strapped to his body and holding campaign workers hostage for hours after demanding to speak to Clinton about mental health care, authorities said.

During an arraignment Monday afternoon, prosecutors asked for a judge to set a cash bond of $500,000. The prosecutor said Eisenberg had a lengthy criminal record, including a rape conviction, and had escaped while serving a 10-year sentence for that crime and committed rape again.

His stepson, Ben Warren, said that Eisenberg drank heavily Thursday night and Friday morning before the hostages were taken, according to the document, which was written by authorities who interviewed Warren. Family members have said Eisenberg wanted to get help, but lacked health insurance and money.

“He said he wanted to do something to get himself put in the hospital,” he said.

When he went to buy cigarettes Friday morning, Eisenberg asked Warren to check if the store sold road flares, the document said. After Warren said no, he heard his stepfather call a taxi and ask to be taken to an auto parts store. Later, he heard the sound of ripping duct tape, but didn’t get up to see what was going on, Warren said.

As Eisenberg left the house, Warren recalled his stepfather saying, “No matter what happens today, tell your mother I love her,” according to the document.

Eisenberg faces charges of kidnapping, criminal threatening and fraudulent use of a bomb-like device. The five-hour crisis ended peacefully, after all the hostages were released and Eisenberg walked out to surrender. The explosives turned out to be road flares Eisenberg had duct-taped to his body, according to authorities.

Eisenberg’s wife, Lisa Warren, told Foster’s Sunday Citizen her husband had been binge-drinking for three weeks. She had filed for divorce Tuesday, and the couple were due for a domestic violence hearing Friday.

Ben Warren said it wasn’t until he headed to court with his mother that “he began to realize the Mr. Eisenberg may be planning (on) making a bomb of some sort of out of flares and duct tape,” and called the court.

Eisenberg’s wife has said that he saw a televised Clinton campaign ad where a man said the senator helped him when an insurance company refused to pay for his son’s medical treatment.

The couple have been married for about 1 1/2 years, and his wife told ABC’s “Good Morning America” Tuesday that he made her laugh and spoiled her when he was on medication and wasn’t drinking.

“But without the medication and (with) the use of the alcohol, he turned into a different person,” she said.