A judge sentenced a former Tucson school teacher to two and half years in prison for making a death threat against State Senator Wendy Rogers (R-Flagstaff) and two store owners.
Navajo County Superior Court Judge Joseph Clark issued the maximum sentence against Donald Glenn Brown (pictured above) during a hearing in Holbrook on Tuesday. Brown pleaded guilty to attempting to make a terroristic threat in April, a class 4 felony.
The judge could have given Brown probation or a lesser prison sentence but decided to impose the maximum sentence. Clark gave three reasons for imposing the maximum sentence. First, he said Brown threatened a public official, costing the state considerable resources to determine who he was. Second, he threatened to use an AR-15. Finally, Clark pointed out that Brown threatened death against Rogers.
Brown sent an email on July 4, 2022, to Steve Slaton and Karen Slaton through their store’s website, Trumped Store. Their store in Show Low is located near a parade Rogers participated in that day, and she ended the parade with an appearance at the store. She had to be evacuated from the store after the threat emerged.
Brown said in the email, which came from a fake email account named “Jessica James,” that “Jim and Jessica” were next door at a burger restaurant with AR-15s, had Rogers in their gun sights, and were going to “splash her brains out” around the store. He called Rogers a “traitor” and said, “We are going to walk in your … joke of a store, and start shooting.” He said, “Wendy Rogers is going to [expletive] die.”