PORTLAND, Maine — A Missouri man who last year threatened to come to Maine and create “the worst bloodbath in America” pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court to interstate stalking, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
The sentencing of William McBroom-Stees, 42, of Springfield, Missouri, has been set for Jan. 13, 2015, according to information on the court’s electronic case filing system.
He is being held without bail pending sentencing.
Originally charged in state court, McBroom-Stees was arrested Nov. 22, 2013, after being found by police in Missouri after an investigation by members of the Knox County Sheriff’s Office and the Rockland Police Department, according to a previously published report.
He was charged in federal court in May.
The woman told a Knox County detective that she fled because of McBroom-Stees’ abuse, and she said he was out of control on drugs.
By pleading guilty, McBroom-Stees admitted that between Nov. 9 and Nov. 21, 2013, he made hundreds of threatening calls and sent numerous text messages to his former live-in girlfriend and the mother of his child, a release issued Thursday by the federal prosecutor’s office said.
The woman was in the process of moving to Rockland, according to court documents.
“During these calls and text messages, the defendant threatened to kill and otherwise harm [the woman], her immediate family and others,” according to the prosecution version of events to which he pleaded guilty.
On Nov. 13, McBroom-Stees threatened that if she did not return to Missouri by their child’s birthday, he would “start the worst bloodbath in America” and dared the police to come after him, according to court documents. That phone call was recorded by a detective with the Knox County Sheriff’s Office.
McBroom-Stees faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.