Story out of Texarkana, Arkansas:
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 granted Harris’ motion for Bryan’s pretrial detention in an order handed down May 2.
Hickey’s order states that she reviewed a transcript of the detention hearing at which Craven released Bryan on an unsecured bond and determined that Bryan should have remained in custody as the government requested.
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.
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. Cont.
Story from - Arkansas Online
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