A 36-year-old Henderson man charged with making threats toward a neighbor, law enforcement officers and saying he intended to go to a local school and commit suicide in front of the students pled guilty to the charges against him in Baxter County Circuit Court/Criminal Division Monday (March 2).
Daniel Jacob Somsel was put on probation for five years and ordered to have no contact with the victim.
Somsel was arrested after a complaint was received from a person living along Black Forest Lane who reported Somsel was outside his residence yelling profanities and making threats toward him, his wife and an unidentified woman.
When sheriff’s deputies arrived, they reported Somsel appeared intoxicated and resisted arrest.
As Somsel was being taken to the Baxter County Detention Center, he is alleged to have made repeated threats to kill the deputy transporting him, including telling the deputy he would “snap” his neck.
He then said that if he was released, he intended to go to a Mountain Home school and kill himself in front of students.
Somsel was booked into the county jail on two counts of terroristic threatening, and one count each of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
According to the sheriff’s office, one count of terroristic threatening was picked up for statements Somsel made at the home and the second for other threatening statements he made while being transported to the jail.
Somsel has picked up similar charges in the past. In a case opened on him last year, Somsel was initially charged with terroristic threatening, resisting arrest, public intoxication and disorderly conduct.
During his appearance Monday, Somsel told the court that he is often so overcome with anger that he cannot control what he says and often does not remember the statements. He indicated the consumption of alcohol made the situation worse.
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