Man charged with threat now charged with stalking

From staff reports
Published: September 30, 2008

A Lynchburg man charged with threatening the life of Jerry Falwell Jr. has been arrested again after sending threatening e-mails to a reporter for The News & Advance.

Berkley Carter Mills, 56, of the 600 block of Reusens Road, was charged Tuesday with stalking and making threats of death or bodily injury by letter.

He had been out on a $10,000 bond following his arrest last week on the charge of threatening Falwell via The News & Advance’s online comments. His bond was revoked following the new charges Tuesday and he has been jailed.

The reporter, Chris Dumond, who had requested that Mills stop e-mailing him, received an e-mail sent by Mills around 3 a.m. Tuesday.

The e-mail included comments such as:

- “what do i have to do ,,elude to some possible -ability that you will be BOMB,,like twin towers”

- “thus i damn your exsistance or do i save it” and

- “now here me carefully,,if i was jesus,,and WWJD,,i would (obscenity deleted) kill the bastARD,,before he killed me w/his kisss…”

Mills said after the first arrest that he was a convicted felon and can’t legally own a firearm.

The stalking charge is a misdemeanor. The making threats of death or bodily injury by letter charge is a Class 6 felony, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

He is due in court Oct. 8 on the threats charge from the original incident. No court date has been scheduled yet for the two charges relating to The News & Advance.

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