A 43-year-old man was sentenced on Thursday, July 18, to eight months in jail, or time served behind bars, for threatening Orange County Supervisor Don Wagner.
Jose Saul Martinez, who had worked for the supervisor, pleaded guilty in June to criminal threats and threatening a public official.
Martinez said in his plea deal form that he threatened Wagner “when I posted on his social media account that I was threatening him and if I saw him I was going to shoot him and that I wanted someone to kill him. … I had the apparent ability to carry out the threats when I made them.”
Martinez threatened Wagner on March 23.
Martinez was ordered to participate in a drug and alcohol program and was placed on three years of formal probation.
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