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A North Dakota antheral is accused of threatening to termination erstwhile President Barack Obama and committing different crimes astatine a historical tract tally by the National Park Service
BISMARCK, N.D. -- A North Dakota antheral is accused of threatening to termination erstwhile President Barack Obama, breaking into a National Park Service historical tract and threatening different people.
A national expansive assemblage indictment filed Wednesday levies felony charges of burglary, harm to spot of the U.S., terrorizing, malicious mischief, threatening to termination a erstwhile U.S. president and 3 counts of threatening interstate communications against Ian Patrick Stewart of Williston.
The indictment said Stewart “did knowingly and willfully endanger to termination and inflict bodily harm upon” Obama betwixt April 20 and May 13. The papers doesn't item the alleged threat. Stewart besides is accused of threatening to injure 3 Williston residents successful May.
The tribunal papers accidental Stewart entered Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site connected May 13 erstwhile it wasn't unfastened to the public, caused a gathering to evacuate and threatened a Park Service worker and Williams County instrumentality enforcement. He was armed, according to the indictment.
Several instrumentality enforcement agencies responded, and the historical tract and the roadworthy to it were closed during the “barricaded taxable situation,” the Williams County Sheriff's Office antecedently said.
Stewart is held astatine the Ward County Detention Center successful Minot. He is scheduled to look Monday successful court. No lawyer is listed for him successful tribunal records. The Associated Press near him a voicemail.
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site is on the Missouri River astatine the Montana-North Dakota border. The tract focuses connected the past of the fur commercialized and the station that operated determination for decades successful the 19th century.
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