BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — A Bremerton man was charged with making threats to kill and intimidating a public servant after a standoff with the SWAT team. Joseph James Beckman is accused of threatening to shoot a Bremerton city prosecutor or himself if the prosecutor did not drop his pending charges. The man is also accused of leaving a voicemail at the Bremerton mayor’s office threatening “bloodshed” and “violence” if the mayor didn’t intervene in his pending criminal cases. The calls prompted a standoff outside a home Thursday between the man and a SWAT team. The man was booked into the Kitsap County Jail with his bail is set at $250,000.
Bremerton man charged with threatening prosecutor, mayor
