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Saratoga man arrested after threatening President, area school children
By Dennis Yusko
Updated 01:35 p.m., Saturday, March 3, 2012


Brent G. Dickinson

SARATOGA SPRINGS — U.S. Secret Service agents and local authorities collaborated to arrest a 33-year-old Saratoga Springs man on charges he made terrorist threats against President Barack Obama and Saratoga County elementary school children, the district attorney said.

Brent G. Dickinson of Maple Avenue was charged with two counts of making a terroristic threat after he allegedly sent two communications to a White House message board at around 11 p.m. Friday, county District Attorney James A. Murphy III said in a prepared statement. Dickinson named two intended targets: the President and an unspecified elementary school children at an unnamed school, Murphy said. The Secret Service intercepted the messages, he said.

"In both instances, it is alleged that the defendant intended to murder the intended targets," Murphy wrote on his office's website. He could not immediately be reached for further comment.

Due to the coercive, intimidating and influential nature of the communications, the Secret Service contacted the Saratoga Springs Police Department, located where they were made from and identified Dickinson as a suspect, Murphy said................>>>>...................>>>>.................Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/loca.....01.php#ixzz1o5E0xj2y