Scott Lennox, 21, has been charged with allegedly making a death threat against Republican Illinois candidate for governor Darren Bailey.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey is expected to make his first public appearance Thursday after a Chicago man allegedly made a violent threat against him.
Bailey told ABC7 Chicago in an exclusive interview that the suspect mentioned Pritzker's ads in the voicemail, and for that reason, Bailey says this threat falls at the feet of Gov. JB Pritzker. In court Wednesday, prosecutors said Lennox, who lives in a Lakeview high-rise and works at a North Side garden shop, made the call from a bar Friday night after getting angry at a political ad about Bailey that came on the TV.
Secretary of State police contacted Lennox and deemed the threat not credible. State police followed up and arrested Lennox at his Chicago apartment Monday night. "It's my understand with the Safe-T Act that threats, you know threats against public officials, will be non-detainable offenses, so again, due to the nature of this call, state police encouraged us to pursue this," Bailey said.
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