Deputies say Marble Hill man threatened to kill woman

A Marble Hill, Missouri, woman was walking her dog about 2 p.m. Friday when she received a phone call from a Marble Hill man who said she had set up his father, he was coming to get her and she was a “dead b----,” Bollinger County sheriff’s deputies said.

Deputies arrested Richie L. Brown, 34, on Friday. The Bollinger County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Brown with felony driving while intoxicated, tampering with a witness and misdemeanor driving with a revoked license.

The woman’s son said he also had heard Brown make threats against her, according to a probable-cause affidavit filed in the case by Bollinger County sheriff’s Cpl. William Forkum.

Brown called back, and she placed him on speaker phone, Forkum wrote. Brown said she had better be gone by the time he arrived, and wherever she went, he would find and kill her, according to the affidavit.

The arrest warrant for Brown states the woman was a witness against him on charges of felony possession of a firearm and felony possession of a controlled substance from Oct. 26.

Forkum parked at the woman’s residence and saw Brown drive on Highway 51 in a green Chevrolet pickup truck, turn onto Bollinger County Road 416 and turn into the first driveway on the right side of the road, Forkum wrote.

Forkum saw Brown get out of the truck and lean on the driver’s-side truck bed, according to the statement.

Brown told the deputy said he was not driving but was at home, but Forkum noticed intoxicants on Brown’s breath, watery and bloodshot eyes and slurred speech, according to the statement.

Brown admitted he had been drinking and had downed a pint of whiskey, according to the statement.

Forkum read Brown his Miranda rights and took him back to the station, where Brown blew into a Breathalyzer and tested at 0.212 blood-alcohol level — above the legal level of 0.08.

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