Alleged death threats lead to charges

Florida Keys News - Key West Citizen

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Alleged death threats lead to charges

Prosecutor: Keys man upset about garnished checks

BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff
alinhardt@keysnews.com

Federal agents have arrested a Summerland Key man who allegedly threatened last week to go on a killing spree at a Key West office building before killing himself.

The U.S. Attorney's Office alleges that William Duncan Savage of Summerland Key was upset over the garnishment of his Navy retirement income for child support payments when, during a Dec. 10 phone call with a fed...

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Another blunder by our government types

Submitted on Wed, 12/19/2012 - 10:42am by Key West Ugly

Surely this could have been handled better in person than over the phone with some idiotic bureaucrat type? What if this highly trained military guy didn't say anything and just carried out his threat instead? Prison is nothing to someone used to living 10- 20 years in a tin can in the ocean. So we taxpayers will now have to pay more in courts, incarceration and medical treatment than the original child support would have cost if he couldn't afford to pay it. Stupid.