By: Real America News Updated 02 Mar 2022, 21: 43 pm EST
A Hispanic man who threatened to behead a judge of the county of Kern was convicted of four felony counts and could receive up to 16 years of sentence.
Gustavo Chávez, of 43 years old, was convicted Monday of two counts of making terroristic threats, threatening the life of a state or elected public official
, threatening to dissuade an officer from doing his or her duty, and a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest. His sentence will be known on March 29
According to According to available information, Chávez threatened police officers, park rangers, and Superior Court Judge Colette M. Humphrey. Chavez said prosecutors and judges deserved to die and threatened to kill the head of the Kern County Park Ranger.
In a text message that was released, Chávez said: “Judge Humphrey, I have to rip your head off, it’s not negotiable.”
The man said that he never threatened to kill Humphrey, that he spoke through the Holy Spirit and that the messages were sent by God.
Humphrey had previously sentenced Chavez for threatening the chief ranger in 2019, prosecutors said.
The police tried to arrest Chavez on 13 September 2021 while cutting down trees at a Bakersfield residence. Chavez turned menacing and brandished a machete as he approached officers and yelled, “They’re going to have to shoot me.” An officer used a Taser to restrain Chavez, who was eventually arrested.