By Staff Report
Baxter County officials say that a Clarksville man, who we first reported on back in December of last year, had his court case for terroristic threatening suspended until a mental evaluation is performed and the results are given to the court.
Michael Thomas Curtis, who made threats against two local law enforcement officials, appeared via video link Thursday in Baxter County Circuit Court in which he made rapid-fire nonsensical statements as Judge Gordon Webb attempted to negotiate the case before giving up in frustration.
Curtis informed the court that he is a U.S. Justice and a judge executioner. He also told the court that on February 3, all the charges against him were dropped and that the orders of protection barring him from contacting his wife and daughter also had been dropped.
There was a difference in Curtis’ latest court appearance. After making certain statements he apparently wished to emphasize, Curtis spoke the word “gavel” to indicate the listener should imagine a judge’s gavel being struck on the bench.
Curtis, 45, also told the judge that he’d been fired and that he would be fired again should Curtis not be released from the Baxter County jail by the end of the day. The Clarksville man informed the judge that he outranked him in the pecking order.
The judge ordered jail staff to remove Curtis from the area.
Later in the session,
In addition to terroristic threatening, Curtis faces a charge of threatening a judicial officer. If convicted on both charges, Curtis faces a maximum of 26 years in prison.
Curtis was arrested last Decembe by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office and was transported to the Baxter County Detention Facility the following day.
On or about December 6, Curtis began sending emails to the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office regarding an order of protection that was obtained against him in Baxter County by his ex-wife and biological daughter.
Most of the emails were harassing in nature and incoherent, a news release stated, with the Clarksville man referring to himself as “King Michael” and indicates that President Donald Trump will carry out several executions.
Two of the emails are included in Curtis’ arrest affidavit.
In one email dated December 6, Curtis allegedly wrote, “The president of the United States of America orders the execution of … both sheriffs are to be executed until dead as ordered by executive order of the President of the United States of America Donald Trump gavel.”
In an email dated December 7, Curtis wrote, “The president of the United States of America orders all judges and sheriffs in Johnson County Clarksville Arkansas are to be executed until dead for the attempted murder of King Michael Thomas Curtis and the abduction of his queen daughter…”
Baxter County Sheriff’s Investigators applied for and received a warrant for Curtis’ arrest on December 11. A copy of the warrant was sent to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, with a request to assist in taking Curtis into custody.
The U.S. Secret Service was provided with all the information in Curtis’ case and assisted with the investigation, according to authorities.
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