US Attorney disagrees with judge on man who threatened the President
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Official portrait of President-elect Barack Obama on Jan. 13, 2009. (Photo by Pete Souza) Image by Pete Souza
Federal prosecutors in Tulsa are fighting a magistrate's order to transfer a man charged with threatening the president and first lady to a rehabilitation facility.
A grand jury indicted Mark Dee Gragg on one count of threatening to kill or harm the president. An affidavit alleges that Gragg repeatedly called the Secret Service and threatened President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama.
U.S. Magistrate Lane Wilson issued an order Wednesday to transfer Gragg from jail to a rehabilitation facility for mental health and substance abuse treatment. The Associated Press reports Gragg will remain jailed while a federal judge reviews the issue.
Gragg's attorney, J. Lance Hopkins, says a psychological evaluation has shown that Gragg is not dangerous in a "controlled environment,'' and that he's been a model inmate.
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