A Rockingham County, N.C., man was sentenced Thursday in Superior Court for telling a 911 operator that he was going to assassinate the president, according to a news release from the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office.
Steve Lee Stone, 44, of Stoneville, received a suspended 45-day sentence and 18 months of supervised probation after pleading guilty to communicating threats, misuse of a 911 system and two counts of resisting a public officer, said Phil Berger, the district attorney for Rockingham County.
The communicating threats charge stemmed from things Stone said to sheriff’s deputies, while the misuse of a 911 system came from his conversation with the dispatcher, Berger added.
He said he wasn’t sure if there was any federal legislation that would apply to Stone since he threatened the president’s life.
“We prosecuted what was brought before us,” he said. “It appears as if Mr. Stone communicated a threat, and he plead guilty to it.”
A 911 dispatcher received a call from a cell phone on July 30 from an unknown caller who said he was going to assassinate the president of the United States, according to the release. The dispatcher traced the call to a trailer park on Bob Trail in Stoneville. A deputy went to the trailer park but couldn’t find the caller. Authorities also notified the Secret Service.
The same caller dialed 911 again about 24 hours later. Detective Steve Perkins and a Secret Service agent investigated the call and ended up at 103 Abernathy Drive in Stoneville to interview Stone.
Stone became “combative” and resisted arrest until a deputy used his Taser.
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