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Oglesby man gets probation for misdemeanor threat · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oglesby man gets probation for misdemeanor threat. Written by Tom Collins,
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. He told police it was a joke.
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota authorities didn't think the threat against the states Lieutenant
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  Speaker 1: governor was funny. Caden Sluter of Oglesby is now on probation. Sluter,
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, was sentenced recently to two years of probation
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  Speaker 1: after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of making a
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  Speaker 1: threat at proceedings in Ramsey County, Minnesota. Sluter apologized for
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  Speaker 1: the threat to Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan. I offer no
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  Speaker 1: excuse for my behavior, Sluter said in a statement recorded
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  Speaker 1: by multiple media outlets in the Twin Cities. Looking back,
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  Speaker 1: I am ashamed of my choices that I made that day.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that my actions brought emotional stress to the
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  Speaker 1: victim and my own family. I am sincere sorry for
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  Speaker 1: the pained, disruption and harm my choices have caused to them.
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  Speaker 1: Sluter was charged last summer after posts directed at Flanagan
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  Speaker 1: following her response to a school shooting. You should be
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  Speaker 1: genuinely shot and killed, read one children's blood is on
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  Speaker 1: your hands, and soon it will be coming out of
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  Speaker 1: your mouth and expletive throat as we beat you. Read
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  Speaker 1: another Flanagan made a statement at Sluter's sentencing. I need
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  Speaker 1: mister Sluter to know that these posts left my family
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  Speaker 1: completely unsure of what was going to happen next. She said,
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  Speaker 1: I would never ask you, mister Sluter, to agree with
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  Speaker 1: me politically, but I hope that the therapy, the anger management,
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  Speaker 1: the community service will help you understand that there are
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  Speaker 1: real people on the other side of the keyboard.