A Hillsdale County man, already behind bars, has been slapped with additional jail time over social media threats directed at a former prosecutor, according to the Michigan Attorney General's Office, 38-year-old Paul Hawkins, who's currently cooling his heels at G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility, received a sentence last week of 133 days in the clink for unsettling Facebook posts targeting formerly Hillsdale County's top legal eagle, Neal Brady, as reported by The Detroit News.
Hawkins, who was found guilty last month, seems he couldn't resist using a computer to commit a crime while on parole and, as court records show, he got dinged with two charges: malicious use of telecommunications service and using a computer to pull off a crime; the threat saga unfolded last May and played out on the Hillsdale City Police Department’s Facebook page, a platform Hawkins likely thought apt for his vitriol, "Threats against those who serve our communities cannot and will not be tolerated," Attorney General Dana Nessel didn't mince words in her announcement which echoes breadcrumbs found on Michigan Department of Attorney General's release.
Brady, no longer in the prosecutor's seat when the threats rolled in, had been the legal harmsman at the helm during Hawkins' earlier tangles with the law, spanning drunk driving to breaking, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections. Hawkins had a track record of previous convictions, including drug charges and possession of stolen property.
