MARATHON, Fla. - A 63-year-old Jacksonville man was arrested Friday after threatening a Florida Keys mayor, deputies said.
Michael Falls is accused of leaving multiple threatening messages directed at Marathon Mayor John Bartus.
"The profanity-laced messages suggested Mayor Bartus was responsible for Falls' interaction with law enforcement" or that Bartus "controlled law enforcement in some fashion," sheriff's spokesman Adam Linhardt said.
Falls left several threatening messages, Linhardt said, including one in which he told Bartus, "When I'm done, I'm going to show you your grave, sir."
In another message, Linhardt said, Falls told Bartus to "run the sheriff out of this (expletive) town.