A man described as a “normal guy” who kept a low profile in his rural Alaska community faces charges he threatened to hire an assassin to kill a U.S. senator.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska —
Few people in Delta Junction, with a population of about 1,000 in town with another 4,000 or so in the surrounding area, know him, said Mayor Lou Heinbockel. On June 18, 2019, Johnson registered to vote as a member of the Alaska Constitution Party, Tiffany Montemayor, a spokesperson for the Alaska Division of Elections, said in an email to the AP.It is not recognized as a party in the state, but it is a political group with about 680 members, she said.
Originally from Fairbanks, Johnson lived briefly in Abilene and then spent many years in Tuscola, Texas, before moving back to Alaska. He pleaded no contest to a felony violence charge in Alaska in 1990, and he’s had several drunken driving offenses, including a related case in which he had a weapon while intoxicated.
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