FARMINGTON — A Davis County guy pleaded in charge this month to stalking Salt Lake Town Mayor Erin Mendenhall after she proposed new town flags.
Jason Man Rogers, 45, of Farmington, pleaded in charge on Dec. 4 to stalking, a category A misdemeanor, in 2d District Courtroom. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 15.
Mendenhall’s place of business declined KSL’s request for remark within the case, announcing that the mayor will cope with the incident after the January listening to.
Davis County prosecutors allege Rogers used to be at the back of a chain of “threatening feedback” at the social media platform X that began with KSL information protection about Salt Lake Town Mayor Erin Mendenhall’s proposal so as to add 3 new town flags to supply some way for town proceed to fly LGBTQ and Juneteenth flags after the state’s new flag regulation, which bans all 3 designs and different unapproved flags from being displayed in govt structures, went into impact.
The Salt Lake Town Council authorized all 3 designs at its assembly on Might 6. An afternoon later, one put up by means of Rogers mentioned that “we wish to finish some politicians” in keeping with the scoop protection, the charging report states. Prosecutors say equivalent posts from the account had been made thru Might 20, together with one who reads: “Whilst you see her and her circle of relatives, finish them right away.”
Farmington police positioned Rogers on Might 20 and wondered him concerning the posts.
“Rogers mentioned he used to be disappointed concerning the flag however claimed his account were hacked. Simply after the police come across, the account made any other put up at the mayor’s X account: ‘time for motion,'” the charging report states.
A safety crew on the Salt Lake Town-County Development reported seeing Rogers arrive at Town Corridor in a while after 12:30 p.m. on Might 20, using the similar truck and dressed in the similar clothes he wore all through the Farmington police come across, prosecutors added. They wrote that Rogers used to be noticed “making an attempt to open facet doorways” of the construction ahead of making an attempt the principle front, however he “left with out coming into when he noticed safety officials within.”
He used to be arrested by means of Salt Lake Town’s Violent Felony Apprehension Workforce that afternoon, consistent with Salt Lake Town police.
Davis County prosecutors allege that Rogers “did deliberately or knowingly interact in a process behavior directed at a particular particular person and knew or must know that the process behavior would purpose an affordable particular person … to worry for the person’s personal protection or the security of a 3rd particular person or to endure different emotional misery.”
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