‘Get my axe and chop you’: Woman threatens cable employee
By Rachael Perry
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (WPBF) — A Florida woman is accused of threatening to kill a cable company employee multiple times.
According to court records, the employee was installing a concrete fiber-optic box on an easement when the suspect, Charmaine Borger, approached him and demanded that he give her a permit.
Video from the Port St. Lucie Police Department shows the victim explaining what happened to officers as they arrived on the scene. The victim told police he could not give Borger a physical copy but offered to show her the permit. However, the employee said Borger became more and more agitated and began threatening to kill him.
The probable cause statement lists a few of the alleged threats, including the following:
“Don’t play with me, I’ll go get my axe and chop you.” “You better leave, I do have a gun. Ima go get it if you don’t leave.” “Boy, you’re tall, but don’t play with me. I’ll go get my gun if you don’t leave right now.” “If you don’t leave, you’re a dead man.” “You’re not going to leave? I’m telling you Ima go get my gun and shoot you.” Officers with the PSLPD interviewed a witness who had recorded some of the incident as well. According to the witness, while pointing at the hole in the ground, Borger stated, “This is my property; if I was to put a bomb in here, I can.”
When the employee told her she cannot, Borger allegedly told him not to tell her what to do and that she would kill him.
Borger can be seen and heard in the body camera footage of one of the responding officers becoming upset and telling the officers, “No,” while they tried to arrest her.
She was eventually taken into custody. She faces an assault charge along with a charge of resisting an officer.
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