A federal grand jury has indicted a Minnesota man accused of threatening to kill a U.S. senator.
Brendon Daugherty is being held within the Sherburne County Jail, in Elk River, Minn., on costs of threatening to homicide a U.S. official and interstate transmission of a menace. He's to look in courtroom Tuesday. It isn't clear if he has retained an legal professional to talk on his behalf.
Court docket data don't determine the senator apart from to say it is not a Minnesota senator who was threatened.
In keeping with the indictment, Daugherty left two threatening voicemail messages on the senator's subject workplace in June. Discipline workplace workers contacted U.S. Capitol Police.
In his first message, in accordance with a Justice Division press launch, Daugherty mentioned, "You and the Republican Occasion needs to be proud that you just're pushing me to grow to be a home terrorist. Have a pleasant [expletive] day; cannot wait to kill ya." In his second message, Daugherty said, "I additionally simply needed to notice, thank god the Republican Occasion is in opposition to gun management legal guidelines as a result of it will hold weapons out of the fingers of an individual that was disabled and unstable like I'm, however you guys are completely in opposition to that. So I may very well get to hold out my nefarious objectives."
The discharge went on to say that the senator's subject workplace workers recorded the 2 messages and reported them to U.S. Capitol Police.
FBI brokers spoke with Daugherty at his Coon Rapids dwelling Sept. 2. He informed the brokers he made the calls as a result of the senator was "doing a bunch of silly (expletive) with gun management," and that he needs politicians to "really feel a little bit bit pressured," the Star Tribune reported.
In keeping with courtroom data, the 35-year-old Daugherty was convicted in October 2018 of two felony counts for threatening to burn down a Pearl Imaginative and prescient retailer in Maple Grove and hurt the workers. Daugherty was offended that he owed $80 for substitute glasses, in accordance with costs.