Fargo man accused of sending threatening messages to North Dakota governor’s office may be unfit for trial

FARGO — A Fargo man accused of

sending threatening messages

to the White Home, FBI and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum’s workplace could also be unfit to face trial.

The protection workforce for Marino Manuel Borges and federal prosecutors have agreed the 38-year-old suffers from a “psychological illness or defect,” in line with court docket paperwork filed final week in North Dakota’s U.S. District Court docket. Court docket paperwork didn’t reveal the psychological sickness, however it’s so extreme that it has made him incompetent to the purpose that he can not perceive the character and penalties of court docket proceedings.

Which means he can not help in his protection, attorneys mentioned within the court docket paperwork.

Borges was charged in February with threatening to kidnap or injure one other utilizing interstate communications. A legal grievance particulars messages he allegedly despatched to numerous authorities companies since 2017.

Among the messages recommended he wished to kill FBI brokers, use bombs and commit massacres, in line with the grievance. One message mentioned he was “prepared to show you the way harmful I will be,” the grievance mentioned.

The FBI spoke with Borges in November 2021 however launched him with an admonishment, the grievance mentioned. At the moment, he instructed an investigator he believed the federal government put a chip in him when he got here to the U.S. from Cuba in 1999, in line with court docket paperwork.

He claimed police have been utilizing “telehypnosis” and “mind-controlling” on him, the grievance mentioned.

The grievance additionally alleged he despatched a message to Burgum’s workplace on Feb. 1 that recommended he deliberate to “burn town, kill a (sic) FBI agent or police officer.”

Borges was transferred to a therapy facility underneath the management of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons after attorneys agreed he was incompetent to proceed in his legal case, in line with an order from U.S. District Choose Peter Welte. The defendant will keep on the facility for as much as 4 months to find out if Borges can regain the capability to face trial.

If not, a court docket must decide if he’s harmful to others and ought to be dedicated to a hospital till he now not presents a “substantial danger of bodily harm to a different individual,” in line with U.S. Code.

The federal case towards him would even be dismissed.