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SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake woman is accused of threatening to kill a 3rd District Court judge who declined to issue a stalking injunction on her behalf, as well as threatening a Salt Lake police officer involved with her case.
Dawn Marie Daras, 53, was charged Monday in 3rd District Court with making a threat against a judge, a third-degree felony, and making a threat of violence, a class B misdemeanor.
On June 21, Daras filed for a civil stalking injunction in 3rd District Court, according to charging documents. That request, however, was denied.
After exchanging several emails with the judge's clerk on how she could appeal the decision, Daras sent an email stating, "I'm going to kill (the judge). Thank you," the charges state. Shortly after, police say she then sent another email stating she was going to kill a Salt Lake police detective involved in the case.
Police then learned that Daras sent additional emails on June 20, June 21 and June 22 to the court and a former attorney, again stating she was going to kill the judge in her case as well as making odd statements such as selling her "algorithms to the Russians," and threatening to kill Utah's governor and President Joe Biden if she could, according to the charging documents.
"I'm tired of doing the right things in a corrupt system," she allegedly wrote in the emails.
Daras was arrested at her house. Prosecutors have requested she be held without bail. At the time of her arrest she was still on probation for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, according to charging documents. She was arrested in that case after allegedly threatening to shoot a manager at a car dealership.
