{"id":18777,"date":"2011-03-14T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18777"},"modified":"2011-03-14T09:24:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T15:24:46","slug":"sleuths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18777","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin investigators <a href=\"http:\/\/maciverinstitute.com\/2011\/03\/wisconsin-dept-of-justice-identifies-sender-of-death-threats\/\">announced on Friday<\/a> that they&#8217;d figured out who sent the really really stupid death threats to Wisconsin&#8217;s GOP senators:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the day Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed his Budget Repair Bill into law, authorities announced they had identified the sender of emails that threatened to kill the Governor and Republican members of the State Senate who supported the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Department of Justice, Division of Criminal Investigation and the Wisconsin Capitol Police say they have investigated numerous threats against elected officials over the last four weeks. Thursday Night, the Division of Criminal Investigation identified and located a subject suspected of sending at least two of those threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Division of Criminal Investigation takes these kind of threats seriously and will follow through with the investigation and prosecution whenever possible,\u201d DCI Administrator Ed Wall said.<\/p>\n<p>Upon questioning, the suspect subsequently admitted to authoring and sending two e-mails threatening to kill the Governor and members of the Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that suspect has <a href=\"http:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/justice\/2011\/03\/12\/female-suspect-wi-death-threats-has-reportedly-confessed#ixzz1GaOPvg3r\">reportedly confessed<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>News that the state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/topics\/politics\/justice-department.htm#r_src=ramp\">Justice Department<\/a> has identified one suspect in connection with death threats sent to  Republican state senators comes as at least a minor relief to Sen. Glenn  Grothman (R-West Bend).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They caught someone? Good,&#8221; he said Friday night. &#8220;I am waiting to  hear the background of the type of person who would do such a devious  thing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>You&#8217;re not the only one, Senator.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin investigators announced on Friday that they&#8217;d figured out who sent the really really stupid death threats to Wisconsin&#8217;s GOP senators: On the day Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed his Budget Repair Bill into law, authorities announced they had identified the sender of emails that threatened to kill the Governor and Republican members of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18777"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18786,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777\/revisions\/18786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}