ARKANSAS: Man Threatens To Kill Seven Mayors And Raise “Christian Army” To Overthrow US Government

Arkansas Online reports:

A Mineral Springs man accused of mailing threatening letters in January 2015 to seven Arkansas mayors is going back to jail on a federal judge’s order. Maverick Dean Bryan, 55, was released by U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven after a detention hearing March 28 in Texarkana’s downtown federal building.

Assistant U.S. Attorney David Harris was so opposed to Bryan’s release that he asked for a review of Craven’s decision by U.S. District Judge Susan Hickey, who presides over cases in the Texarkana Division of the Western District of Arkansas.

Hickey’s order notes that Bryan, during his detention hearing, freely admitted to writing the letters to the mayors. The letters included threats to hang the mayors of Ashdown, Hope, De Queen, Lewisville, Nashville, Prescott and Murfreesboro from “mighty oaks” on courthouse lawns if they didn’t rid local schools of the Common Core curriculum and put religion back in the classroom.

Hickey’s order also addresses Bryan’s criminal history. “Defendant has an extensive criminal history involving the possession of firearms. In addition to his three previous convictions involving firearms, Defendant has admitted that he was impermissibly in possession of a firearm on the day of his arrest,” the order states.

Bryan also admitted at his detention hearing to being the author of an advertisement that ran twice in the Thrifty Nickel last year seeking a $23 million loan to raise a Christian army to overthrow the U.S. government.

Bryan’s letters to the seven mayors reportedly demanded that they no longer honor the votes of people who are “homosexual, Muslim, socialist, communist, atheist, or who worships any God other than Jesus Christ.” (Via Raw Story)