ATLANTA (AP) — An Alabama guy pleaded guilty Tuesday to leaving threatening phone messages for Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis and the county constable last summertime due to the fact that he was upset over the election-interference examination into previous President Donald Trump.
Arthur Ray Hanson II made the telephone call simply over a week before Trump and 18 others were arraigned in Fulton County on Aug. 14.
Hanson of Huntsville, Alabama, informed a federal judge at his plea hearing Tuesday that he never ever indicated damage to Willis, whose workplace is prosecuting Trump and the others, or to Constable Patrick Labat, whose personnel scheduled the previous president at the Fulton County prison and took his mug shot.
“I made a dumb call,” Hanson stated in court. “I’m not a violent individual.”
He will be sentenced at a later date, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Assistant U.S. Lawyer Bret Hobson informed the judge that district attorneys will look for leniency for Hanson due to the fact that he took obligation for his actions.
At the plea hearing, Hanson confessed to calling a Fulton County federal government customer care line on Aug. 6 and leaving voicemails for the district attorney and the constable.
In one message, Hanson alerted Willis: “When you charge Trump on that 4th indictment, anytime you’re alone, be examining your shoulder.”
His message for Labat alerted of effects for taking a prison reserving image of Trump.
“If you take a mug shot of the president and you’re the factor it occurred, some bad (curse)’s gonna take place to you,” the voice message stated, according to court records.
The indictment acquired by Willis’ workplace declared a comprehensive plan by Trump and others to reverse the 2020 election leads to Georgia. It was the 4th criminal case brought versus the previous president in a matter of months and had actually been extensively prepared for.
The constable commented openly in advance that anybody arraigned in the event would be scheduled according to regular treatments, consisting of having a prison mug shot taken.
A federal grand jury arraigned Hanson in October on charges of making interstate dangers through phone.
Hanson informed U.S. Magistrate Regina Cannon on Tuesday that he was outraged by the examination of Trump and made the telephone call hoping authorities would pull back.
“I didn’t intentionally understand I was threatening any person,” he informed the judge. “To me, it was a caution.”