An Alabama man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for threatening to harm the Fulton County district attorney and Fulton County sheriff for bringing charges against and booking former President Donald Trump.
The man left troubling voicemails on the officials’ telephones, which suggested something could happen to harm them or end their lives.
One of the district attorney’s voicemails said, “Watch it when you’re going to the car at night when you’re going into your house, watch everywhere that you’re going,” and stated she should be “very afraid” because she “can’t be” protected all the time.
The Department of Justice announced the indictment of Huntsville native Arthur Ray Hanson II for threatening Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat in August 2023.
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The two became the 59-year-old’s target after she moved to investigate Trump for his role in pushing officials to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results, according to the charging documents against Hanson. After Trump’s indictment, Labat’s department booked the former president at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail, where his widely seen mug shot was taken.
In August, Willis indicted Trump and 18 co-defendants on racketeering charges related to attempts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election. Currently, four of the defendants have pleaded guilty and agreed to testify in the case, while the remaining co-defendants, including Trump, have entered not-guilty pleas.
Hanson called the Fulton County Government customer services line two times, leaving voicemails on Aug. 6, federal prosecutors say.
“If you think you gonna take a mug shot of my President Donald Trump and it’s gonna be OK, you gonna find out that after you take that mug shot, some bad [expletive]’s probably gonna happen to you,” Hanson allegedly said in one message to the sheriff, adding,…
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