BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
STARKE— A 35-year-old Hampton man was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading to sending threatening texts, possession of drugs and battery.
Daniel William Bresee pleaded no contest to the Jan. 31 offenses of making written threats to kill or inflict bodily injury, and to the Feb. 28 offenses of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, resisting an officer without violence and felony battery-repeat offender.
According to court papers, on Jan. 31 Bresee’s wife, who is separated from the defendant, told deputies that Bresee had been sending threatening texts.
Deputy Brandon Whitehead wrote in a warrant affidavit that the defendant knew he would go back to prison for what he was threatening to do but was not afraid.
“Daniel stated in one text, ‘You have done put my ass in jail one time. I already know you are going to put me there again. Hey, guess what, it’ll be worth it this time,’” Whitehead wrote.
In a Feb. 28 arrest report, the victim and witnesses told deputies that Bresee entered the victim’s home through the back door and confronted the victim saying, “he was going to beat up her cop-calling ass.”
“The suspect then pushed and slapped the victim in the face,” wrote arresting officer Glen Ward. “The victim had no visible marks and refused medical treatment.”
Cpl. Dalton Sumner wrote that the defendant banged his head on the ground and into the interior of a patrol vehicle once he was put into the car. Sumner reported that he used his taser to drive-stun Bresee in an attempt to force him to stop banging his head. Deputies added that during the arrest, the defendant dropped a small glass vial containing five-and-a-half Suboxone pills.
