(AP) – An Arkansas man has pleaded guilty to charges of
threatening seven mayors with hanging if they didn’t meet his demands that
included putting prayer and the Ten Commandments back in schools.
The Texarkana Gazette reports that 56-year-old Maverick Dean Bryan of Mineral
Springs pleaded guilty Wednesday as part of a plea agreement in which
prosecutors will recommend a 12-to-18 month prison sentence and dismiss a charge
of felon in possession of a firearm.
The letters sent to the mayors of Hope, Nashville, DeQueen, Ashdown,
Lewisville, Prescott and Murfreesboro in 2015 also demanded they no longer honor
the votes of anyone who is homosexual, Muslim, socialist, communist or atheist,
or who worships any God other than Jesus Christ.
Bryan said he meant no harm and “made a grave mistake.”
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