Posted on 04/01/2011 7:08:38 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
MADISON (WKOW) -- Authorities say 26-year-old Katherine Windels sent disturbing emails to 16 Republican senators, repeatedly threatening to kill them.
Windels, of Cross Plains, faces four charges including using a computer to send a threat and creating a bomb scare.
Two of the counts are felonies, two are misdemeanors. The criminal complaint says the emails were sent on March 9, the same day senate Republicans passed the revised budget repair bill with no Democrats present.
According to the complaint, Windels told the senators "you will be killed and your families [sic] will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks." She threatened to "put a nice little bullet in your head," and made reference to several bombs.
Investigators visited Windels at her home the next day. According to the complaint, she told them she had sent the emails, and did so because she was very angry about what the senators had done. She also said she didn't intend to carry out the threats, and was not arrested.
Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne filed the charges Thursday. He says "it's odd" law enforcement never took Windels into custody.
"The reality is, the person was not placed into custody, so at some point, law enforcement didn't see the person as an imminent threat," Ozanne said. "It's not that the case was not serious or taken seriously by law enforcement or by this office."
This morning, the Justice Department sent a letter to the media, saying it was concerned about the "lack of action" on the case by the D.A.'s office. The Justice Department had referred the case to Ozanne two weeks prior.
Ozanne says his office filed charges in an appropriate amount of time.
"The file was reviewed as quickly as possible," he said.
He declined to comment on whether the letter could be the result of mounting tensions between his office, and the Justice Department. The two are pitted against each other in the lawsuit against the Governor's budget repair bill.
Windels is not in custody. The D.A.'s office says she won't be arrested.
The district attorney's office said Friday morning, the 26-year-old will now make her initial appearance Thursday, April 21.
If convicted on all counts, she could face up to seven years, six months in prison.
Really sad,there are so many good teachers that love their job and the children they teach,and to have this crazy person teaching the children..I wonder what her ties to the Union is except for just being a Union member..
IS that one of those “Manson” marks between her eyes?
...sent disturbing emails...
No, sent frank death threats and implied she had the means to carry them out.
If a conservative simply quoted her and said, “I’m going to do to you what she threatened to do to conservatives.” would the conservative be arrested?
Perhaps she has earned a YouTube parody sing-along.
Laz promises not to “Hit it”.
This is unbelievable.
This reminds me-what ever happened to the clown that phoned in the bomb threat hours AFTER Gov. Walker’s appearance at some airport?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2697833/posts#27
See this other breaking development?
Lazamataz Vows Celibacy
Since obama occupied the White House, it has been made plain that Conservtives no longer can count on the protection of the law.Remember, this is only the reported incidents in Wisconsin. It does not include incidents where where there are no witnesses or not on camera.
Try to teach my children your evil communist socialist dung? Reveal yourself and make my day, all of you. There will be nowhere to run and nowhere to hide for you. This treacherous felon would do well to seek the safety of incarceration.
So, are you and the vast majority of teachers at your school rising up against the unions and your roles as cogs in the Marxist plans for the country?
Not being mean or sacrcastic - I’d really like to know. We complain that none of the “good” Muslims are standing up and denouncing the tactics of their radical elements - well, I’m waiting for “good” teachers to do the same. Please give us a report from the front lines about your efforts to stand up and speak truth to power. I’d really like to know.
I seriously doubt it, and I seriously doubt shots will ever be fired. Conservatives will dance backwards until they fall into their graves. "Molon labe" is a keyboarder battlecry. We are constantly surrendering by inches.
Good catch. From that article:
“A criminal complaint states Windels set up an email address under the name of acquaintance Lisa Patterson and used that address to deliver the email threats.”
Looks like the young lady’s also into identity theft and framing an innocent woman.
Just an over-credentialed babysitter.
It's odd that ULEO (Union Law Enforcement Officer) only enforce certain laws?
Doesn't the State Troopers report to the Chief Executive (i.e. the Governor?). Have the Staties arrest the teacher AND the local ULEOs for dereliction of duty.
The guilt is strong in this one it is.
I know if If I didn’t do my job they would fire my ass. Fire them all! Bust that union.
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