Crime & Safety
Aurora Man Charged with Threatening Judge
Alexander Wood is said to have wished death on a Cook County judge.
An Aurora man is facing a felony charge for threatening a Cook County Circuit Court Judge, the Cook County Sheriff’s office announced Wednesday.
Alexander Wood, 25, of the 900 block of Oakland Lane, was arrested after leaving a voicemail on a Cook County public defender’s phone March 7 that he wished “death and destruction” of the judge, the sheriff’s office said.
In investigating the call, Sheriff’s officers found the call came from a cell phone belonging to Wood. He was arrested while at work in Chicago.
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This is not Wood’s first round of alleged telephone threats, the sheriff’s office said. He was sentenced in October 2011 to 18 months probation for making telephone threats to a corporation.
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