A Cleveland, Tennessee, man is facing multiple felony charges after allegedly making threatening phone calls targeting judges in Hamilton County, according to a press release from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office.
Monday, detectives were called to the Hamilton County Courthouse after courthouse staff received harassing voicemails. According to the release, investigators said the messages, left by a man later identified as Darrell Brackett, 58, included threats directed at multiple judges. Brackett allegedly threatened Judges Boyd Patterson, J.B. Bennett, Lila Statom and Alex McVeagh with three voicemails in one day, according to an affidavit.
“I’m going to come after you with everything that I have left in my life,” Brackett said, according to a transcript included in an affidavit. “I don’t know how much I have left, but I’m going to give it all I have towards you and all your cohorts that have continuously covered up my federal case in civil court with Judge Bennett.”
According to the transcript, Brackett complained that having to pay the maximum child support kept him from knowing his two children, and that they don’t care what his ex-wife did to him.
“I’m going to eviscerate every one of you,” Brackett said in the transcript, adding profanities toward the judges. “I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but by the grace of God, it will be the righteous way. I’ll do it in a court of law.”