ELKHORN — A 19-year-old Elkhorn man has been arrested after police say he threatened multiple officials in Walworth County.
The 19-year-old was arrested on charges of terrorist threats and threatening to cause bodily harm to individuals involved with a court or legal system.
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According to the Elkhorn Police Department, officers received a complaint Wednesday regarding life-threatening statements made on Facebook toward a member of the Elkhorn Area Fire Department.
Screenshots from Facebook, obtained by TMJ4 show, a person tagging an EAFD member saying "I will kill you."
During the police investigation, detectives said they learned additional threatening statements had been made regarding events in the city of Elkhorn and Lake Geneva.
Screenshots from the accused person's page shows postings that say "I will cause a big scene at the Elkhorn Memorial Day parade on Monday. Go f*** yourself cops." Another post says "I am serious about the big scene I will cause at the Elkhorn Memorial Day parade."
Police said the same Facebook account also threatened Walworth County officials.
Due to what a detective who was working on the case saw on the Facebook page, he believed it was an exigency to identify who wrote the posts.
While working on identifying Hypershadow, the detective found another comment on a post on the Walworth County Government Facebook page. The detective then reached out to a second detective who was assigned to investigate that post, who then informed him that the comment was saying that he was going to shoot the people in a photo that was posted.
The detective late reported that he received the results from Facebook with information regarding Hypershadow. He was then able to identify Hypershadow as Dakotah J. Burns.
Police Chief Jon Albrecht said criminal charges have been referred to the Walworth County District Attorney's Office.
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