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.
Just another psychotic liberal douchebag.
She looks the part, too.
I teach in Texas where teacher’s unions are almost nonexistent. So as for being a “cog” none of my money goes to the marxists that you speak of.
Next she’ll shave her head, take pics, and run around attacking people while the left screams for more regulations on item [name whatever item was used in attack here].
Yeah, and there are 27 mosquitoes that don’t suck blood.
However ALL THE REST DO.
(Note: There are about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 total mosquitoes so taking away the 27 doesn’t really change things.)
Only if your a democRAT!
If this were a conservative white male he would have been convicted before a trial.
Remember all the half-threats and “wishing” for bad things on Air America? Compare to the scruitiny non-left talk radio gets.
I bet that if it was one of her 2nd grade students drawing a stick figure photo with a gun the child would be arrested for terroristic threats.
“the Justice Department”
I believe this is referring to the Wisconsin DOJ. Lest anyone think that Holder is trying to move this forward : )
Not true. It’s in our state constitution, the right to self defense. Translates to open carry, but nonetheless, it’s there.
And the civility police are asleep.
Now pay your taxes - we need raises. :)
Guilty!
“So do you think they will take her into custody after she kills one of them?”
Not if the victim is a republican.
from Gateway Pundit, Associates Degree in Early Childhood Education, ... PeekYou profile she lists Wexford Head Start as one of her work experiences.
We The People are getting TIRED of this bullzhit......keep on pushing, mofo’s, keep on pushin’.......
What was her DU moniker?
I am so angry about this. If a tea party member made anything close to this kind of threat in Dane County they would be in jail now with a high bail.
I also heard today that she sent two emails, I think a day or two apart. She also used the name of of someone she harassed last year via text message for her emails.
Windels sent the threats via an email account she opened under the name Lisa Patterson. Now we find out a Lisa Patterson was concerned enough about some text messages from Windels last November that she got police involved. Police reports show they told Windels to stop all contact with Patterson.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Windels “bomb scare” emails were intended to get “her enemy” Lisa Patterson in trouble with police...i.e. that Windels motivation wasn’t political at all, but a spiteful, “hell hath no fury” pay-back.
Then here she talks about how she's spent the taxpayers money (for two weeks straight) protesting:
(Note the great grammar)
A blog on the incident:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/03/tea-partier-arrested-in-wisconsin-and.html
Glad to hear it - thanks!
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