A Knoxville man is suspected of threatening an Arizona sheriff who is investigating claims that President Obama was not born in the United States.
Authorites confirmed to 10News Saturday that Adam Eugene Cox is set for court on Monday.
According to a press release from the Maricopa County Sheriff's 33-year-old Cox was arrested by officers in Knoxville Friday. The release says a computer and other evidence was seized from his home. Cox was taken into custody on an unrelated warrant, but Sheriff Joe Arpaio calls him the prime suspect in an internet death threat against him.
The threat was received in October 2011, and threatens both the sheriff and his family.
The postings read in part: "I plan to kill Arpaio first. He will be filled with a thousand bullet holes before the year is out. I promise you this. He won't **** with Obama. He will be buried 10 feet under and his whole family will be murdered along with him."
In the press release, Sheriff Arpaio calls Cox an "Obama fanatic" and believes Cox was "incensed" by his "ongoing investigation into (the) legitimacy of Obama's birth certificate."
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