PHOENIX — A Phoenix man has been indicted for allegedly sending a threatening electronic mail to Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates after the 2022 basic election, state prosecutors stated Tuesday.

The Arizona Attorney General’s Office stated 44-year-old Ryan Stuart Hadland is dealing with a misdemeanor cost of utilizing an digital communication to terrify, intimidate, threaten or harass and will get to 6 months in jail and a superb of as much as $2,500.

It was unclear Tuesday if Hadland has a lawyer but who can converse on his behalf.

Gates, a Republican, was the board’s chair over the past 12 months’s elections, and the supervisors oversee voting in Arizona’s most populous county.

The lawyer basic’s workplace didn’t launch the contents of the e-mail despatched to Gates, however he reportedly moved from his residence to an undisclosed location due to security considerations within the days across the Nov. 8 election.

Gates, who labored to bat down election misinformation and a hostile political panorama in 2020 and 2022, introduced earlier this month that he's not operating for re-election however will fulfill the rest of his time period.

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