A preliminary hearing for a man accused of threats against the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office personnel has been set. Arlyn Briggs will be in Anderson County District Court on February 14th to face a single count of felony criminal threat and additional misdemeanors alleging he violated protection orders issued, barring him from contact with sheriff department staff and deputies. Last spring he inquired about an investigation of an acquaintance of his. This escalated, ending in what the department claims was an attempt by Briggs to bait deputies onto his property after saying “if they come on my property I will shoot them, and that is a promise.
The affidavit also quotes recorded conversation on June 1st from the lobby of the department office in which Briggs claims accessibility to advanced weapons from uzis to ar-15’s to a surface to air missile. Briggs told the Iola register, after his June arrest he had no intention of harming anyone, and that his comments were intended “metaphorically.”
