Veteran avoids jail for threatening congressman's workers

Veteran avoids jail for threatening congressman's workers
West Palm Beach man vowed to use shotgun
Sun Sentinel
By Marc Freeman
August 28, 2013

West Palm Beach
A U.S. Marine veteran and former Nebraska police officer sat as a defendant in federal court Wednesday, "embarrassed" by his crime of making threatening phone calls to the office of U.S. Rep. Alcee L. Hastings.

Charles William Daniels Jr., 64, of West Palm Beach, was arrested in February after he was accused of vowing to hunt Hastings' staffers with a shotgun over their handling of a problem he was having with the local Veterans Affairs hospital.

But Daniels will avoid a trial and possible five-year prison sentence if he follows the terms of a 12-month agreement approved by U.S. Magistrate Judge James M. Hopkins.

The requirements include having no contact with the Democratic congressman's offices in Fort Lauderdale and Washington, D.C., other than writing apology letters.
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