A man who police say sent threatening messages to an officer and also made threats against the officer's family was taken into custody by the Iron County Metro SWAT team.
CEDAR CITY — A man who police say sent threatening messages to an officer and also made threats against the officer's family was taken into custody Monday by the Iron County Metro SWAT team.
Starting about 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Cabrera began sending messages on Facebook to a Cedar City police officer. Cabrera sent messages telling the officer he would be "smoked" and claimed he had been in front of the house of the officer's parents and threatened to harm his mother and sister, the affidavit states.
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