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Jan 25, 2008 7:32 pm US/Central
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Dad Guilty Of Threatening Little League Coach
ST. PAUL (WCCO) ―
A jury found a St. Paul man guilty of
making terroristic threats for threatening his son's Little League baseball
coach last summer. Prosecutors said 47-year-old
Wade Campbell told Noe Ambriz that he was going to "shoot him down like a
dog."
Police said in
June 2007, Campbell's
son struck out during a baseball game on St. Paul's
East Side. Campbell chastised his 12-year-old and was
asked to leave. Campbell
then confronted Ambriz yelling that he wasn't giving Campbell's son enough playing
time. Campbell also made racial
comments to Ambriz, who is of Mexican descent, but was born in the U.S.
Ambriz, 30, called police two days later saying Campbell had threatened
him. Ambriz said
Campbell drove
up behind the Ambriz family's residence and stopped. The coach and his wife
said that after a short stay, Campbell
drove away.
Ambriz said about
20 minutes later Campbell
called and said he would shoot Ambriz "down like a dog." The
caller allegedly then said, "I'll be over in five minutes."
Police arrested Campbell, a carpenter who has three other children.
According to court
records, Campbell
was sentenced to 20 days in the workhouse in 1991 after violating an order for
protection that had been granted to a former girlfriend. He also pleaded guilty
to disorderly conduct in 2003.
After the unanimous verdict was read in court, Campbell looked to his
wife and family and said, "Sorry." The jury later voted
no on whether Campbell's
crime was racially motivated. If it had been, the penalty could have been
increased.
Campbell is in jail awaiting sentencing on March 26.
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