ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A man has been arrested and charged in Orange County on accusations he sent a judge threatening text messages following a failed relationship with the judge's daughter, a federal criminal complaint said.
Winton George Wilks IV is accused of sending a number of text messages to the judge, who was not identified, in late June, investigators said.
“Let your daughter choose please. She’s mine. She’s always been mine,” the complaint quotes the text messages as saying. “I’ll kill for her … with love.”
Wilks allegedly threatened to kill the judge numerous times in the text messages.
“I don’t want your blood on my hands, but I will kill for one woman,” the complaint quoted another text message as saying. “You have until midnight. Tonight.”
Wilks apparently blamed the judge for the end of his relationship with the judge's daughter, the complaint said.
“(Wilks) told the officers while he was being detained that he was going to kill a judge because he (the judge) would not release his girlfriend,” police said in the complaint.
About a week earlier, police were called to the judge’s daughter’s home after Wilks showed up unannounced, investigators said.
“Wilks stated to police that, ‘If he could not have the daughter, then nobody will,’” the federal complaint said. “The daughter reported to law enforcement on that occasion that she was concerned that Wilks might hurt himself of others.”
Wilks was involuntarily institutionalized at least three times in May and June, his family told investigators.
His sister also told police that Wilks had a concealed weapon permit and owned multiple firearms, the complaint said.
He was charged with making threats via interstate communications.