A Tucson middle school music teacher made terrorist threats after state investigators said they sent emails targeting Senator Wendy Rogers and Trump’s merchandise store in Show Low, Arizona. indicted.
Arizona Department of Public Safety arrested 58-year-old Donald Glenn Brown, an orchestra teacher at Pister Middle School in Tucson, on September 7.
Although Brown lives in Tucson, authorities believe the email was sent from his mother’s residence in Pinedale, about 15 miles from the eastern Arizona town of Showlow.
DPS reports that Brown sent a threatening email to Show Low’s Trumped Store on July 4 from a fake account with the subject line “Wendy Rogers dies (expletive).” Rogers was on the show his row for the 4th of July parade.
An abusive email that appeared to come from “Jessica James” claimed that “Jim and Jessica” were parked with “two AR-15s” at a fast food restaurant next to the Trumped Store. Stated.
“We will enter your … store joke and start filming,” said the email. The writer threatened to shoot Rogers in the head, dubbed “the traitor,” before shooting the store.
“Some true patriots will fight back and Rogers will die,” the email continued. “(expletive) Your traitor… tRump.”
Brown could not be reached for comment. The Tucson Unified School District did not immediately call about Brown’s employment status.
Shopkeeper: “I took it very seriously.”
A small town parade in northern Arizona featuring elected officials, including Rogers, R-Flagstaff and Attorney General Mark Brunovich, had just ended when an email was sent around 11 a.m. .
Rogers, a pro-Trump Republican who has become nationally famous for fostering election intrigue and harsh online rhetoric, said he was at the Trump Store at 9:40 a.m. before he joined the parade. and posted a photo of the supporter on his Twitter account.
Around 11:30 a.m., Rogers joined Republican nominee Eli as he battles Democrat Tom O’Halleran in the Arizona Second District, another parade participant, according to store co-owner Steve Slaton.・He returned to the store with Mr. Crane. Several campaign workers from Crane’s family were also in the store. Crane and his family had left the house when his Slaton checked his email around 1 p.m., but Rogers was still inside.
Slaton and Rogers’ campaigners kicked Rogers out of the store and called the police, Slaton wrote in an email to the Arizona Republic. Slaton writes that Rogers worked with the Shaw Law Police “throughout the rest of the day and night” while changing locations.
Rogers did not return a message requesting comment.
“Needless to say, there were a lot of high-value targets in the shop here that day,” Slaton said in an email. It was more chilling than anything from .We took it very seriously.”
While in custody after his arrest, Brown told DPS officers that he created an email account and sent threats, records say.
According to DPS records, “Brown said he sent the email out of frustration and apologized.”
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The charge is a third-class felony
The office of Pima County Attorney Laura Conover sent a letter to Slaton last month informing her that the prosecutor had decided to “provisionally” decline charges against Brown based on the evidence. Her office said it could not indict the case because the crime did not originate in Pima County. Both Conover and Carlyon are Democrats.
Carrion refused to discuss the details of the incident, but released a copy of the incident report to the Republic.
A Navajo County grand jury indicted Brown on October 4 with making terrorist threats, a class 3 felony. He faces the possibility of his 3.5 years in prison.
Brown was released after his arrest and is scheduled to appear in Navajo County Superior Court in Holbrook on October 31 at 9:00 am.
Rogers has a very loyal following nationwide and raised millions in campaign funds due to her far-right politics and Trump endorsement.
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In March, she was accused by fellow Republicans of “acting unbecoming a senator” in response to inflammatory posts, including one calling for the public hanging of political opponents. We investigated her for a bizarre post referring to “fed boy summer” following the massacre of 13 black people in a grocery store by a speciesist gunman.
After defeating election opponent Kelly Townshend in the August primary, Rogers appears headed for re-election in strong Republican districts stretching from Flagstaff to Apache Junction against Democratic Kyle Nitschke. .
Other AZ personnel targeted by threats
Three other men from other states were arrested in recent weeks by federal officials on suspicion of sending threats to Arizona officials.
A Massachusetts man was arrested in July for sending bomb threats to Secretary of State and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs. A Missouri man was indicted in August for leaving threatening voicemails to Republican Maricopa County Rector Steven Richer. Arrested in connection with an email threatening to “lynch” a certain Clint Hickman.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Election Intimidation Task Force is handling these cases.
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