Aaron Hernandez’s brother now dealing with federal prices over alleged threats

HARTFORD, Conn. — The troubled brother of the late NFL participant Aaron Hernandez was charged Friday, now in federal courtroom, with new counts of threatening and stalking after authorities say he threatened to shoot up the University of Connecticut and kill three individuals in one other state.

Dennis Hernandez was ordered to be held in custody after his look within the courtroom in Hartford. A message searching for remark was despatched Friday night time to his legal professional.

The new prices got here days after it emerged that Hernandez was arrested July 18 on state prices after police stated he threatened to kill officers after which urged them to shoot him at his dwelling in Bristol. Officers had gone there after two individuals near him raised issues about his psychological well being, police stated.

The arrest report stated the 37-year-old had despatched threatening messages, together with ones about finishing up a taking pictures at UConn. He was a Huskies quarterback and huge receiver who glided by DJ Hernandez within the mid-2000s.

Court filings within the new federal case embrace the identical messages. Some say the author is struggling financially, is annoyed at seeing different individuals get employed as coaches, feels owed by UConn, is planning on “taking down everything” and doesn’t care “who gets caught in the crossfire.”

“I’ve died for years now and now its others peoples turn,” learn a July 7 message despatched to a lady in Hernandez’s life. It adopted a message the day earlier than that warned: “UConn’s gonna see how accurate I am too with my targets.”

Hernandez advised one other individual that he drove July 7 to UConn’s campus in Storrs and to Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, the place he coached quarterbacks throughout the 2010-11 season, in line with courtroom papers.

He had been due in state courtroom that day on one other case stemming from allegations that he threw a bag containing a brick and a word over a fence and onto ESPN’s property in Bristol.

UConn police confirmed {that a} car linked to Hernandez was on campus that day. Brown has stated that its investigation didn’t point out Hernandez had been on campus in latest weeks.

Hernandez is due again in state courtroom Tuesday and in federal courtroom Aug. 11.