Texas man arrested for alleged threat to kill Georgia election official day before Trump Capitol riot

In the message itself, Stark wrote, “Georgia Patriots it’s time for us to take back our state from these Lawless treasonous traitors. It’s time to invoke our Second Amendment right it’s time to put a bullet in the treasonous Chinese [Official A],” an indictment issued by a grand jury in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia alleges.

“Then we work our way down to [Official B] the local and federal corrupt judges,” Stark wrote, the indictment charges.

“We need to pay a visit to [Official C] and her family as well and put a bullet her behind the ears,” the message continued according to the indictment, just a day before a mob of Trump supporters invaded the U.S. Capitol in a fury over false allegations that Trump had lost to Biden due to ballot fraud.

The case against Stark was announced a day after the top state prosecutor in Atlanta asked a judge to empanel a special grand jury to help her pursue a criminal investigation of Trump and others for possible illegal interference with Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.

Stark is due to appear Friday afternoon in federal court in Austin, Texas, on one count of interstate threats.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice files show that Stark has a criminal record dating back to at least 1997, when he was arrested on a felony charge related to the manufacture or distribution of a controlled substance. Stark later pleaded guilty in the case, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, records show.

His probation in that case was revoked after a subsequent arrest related to a controlled substance in 2001, for which he was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Records show he was arrested in 2011 on a charge of aggravated sexual assault in a case involving a child, which was later reduced to a lesser charge of reckless injury to a child. He was sentenced to three years or probation in that case.

Trump on Friday morning issued a new statement blasting the criminal probe of his pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call, in which he repeated his false claims of election fraud in the state.

“All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes,” Trump told Raffensperger in that call.

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