An Orange Park man sentenced to a year in jail claimed he was the target of a Republican plot to take his life and criticized Sheriff Brad Whitehead for not calling the FBI to report local corruption.
Wesley Mikell Morgan, 37, pleaded to harassing communication and threatening an elected official.
According to court papers, between December 2021 and February 2022, the defendant originated nearly 30 phone calls and text messages to the sheriff’s office and the victim’s cell phone, threatening the victim with harm and incarceration.
Deputies arrested Morgan in February 2022. Judge Mitchell D. Bishop conditionally released the defendant the following June, finding the defendant incompetent to proceed. The judge revoked Morgan’s release in November after the defendant violated the terms of the pre-trial release.
In a pro se motion to dismiss the case, Morgan wrote that he had been the subject of plots by political and business leaders and that all public officials are corrupt.
