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Warren man pleads guilty to video call harassment

A Jamestown man will spend an additional year on probation after harassing his ex-girlfriend during a video call earlier this year from the Warren County Prison.

Brandon M. Dailey, 32, of Jamestown was charged in May with terroristic threats with intent to terrorize another and harassment – communication with lewd, threatening, etc. language on June 4 by Warren city police officers after a phone call from the jail on May 22. He pleaded guilty to the harassment charge while the terroristic threats charge was not prosecuted. Dailey was sentenced last week by Judge Gregory Hammond.

According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause filed in the case by police, an officer at the Warren County Prison called Warren police officers to speak about an incident in the prison on May 22. The prison officer said Dailey had made a video call on the prison’s recorded video call system and allegedly made several threats toward an ex-girlfriend.

Warren police officers reviewed the call and reportedly heard Dailey say he would shoot the ex-girlfriend if she is at a certain house as well as threatening to burn her house down if she didn’t return a piece of personal property Dailey had discussed with his family. Death threats were repeated two more times in the course of the call.

“(The office) was able to speak with the victim about her relationship with the defendant, in which she stated they were together for 13 years and there has been domestic violence throughout their relationship and she had applied for a PFA in the past,” the affidavit states. “During this conversation the victim stated these comments made by the defendant put her safety and well being at risk and she was scared.”

Dailey was sentenced earlier in January to 9 months to a year and 11 months of confinement after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of retail theft. Judge Maureen Skerda also sentenced Daily to a year of probation.

Starting at $3.50/week.

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