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‘You better go get an AIDS test': West Plains man charged with harassment
WEST PLAINS, Mo. — A man from West Plains faces a felony after allegedly threatening to use a needle to infect a victim with the AIDS virus.
According to the probable cause statement, Timothy B. Wadkins, born in 1986, is charged with first-degree harassment in Howell County Circuit Court.
The probable cause statement says the victim told law enforcement that Wadkins began threatening and harassing her around March of this year.
Wadkins allegedly called the victim's boyfriend's work multiple times, but would hang up. He also called the victim's phone multiple times from various blocked numbers and threatened 'to have her kidnapped and sold, killed, and beat to death,' the statement says.
Additionally, Wadkins took photos of houses on the victim's street, looking for her home. The victim also said Wadkins has threatened to cause harm to her infant child.
The victim told law enforcement that he won't stop until the victim's sister pays him $9 that she allegedly owes him. The victim said she does not know this man, and after her sister and Wadkins had a 'falling out,' Wadkins began attacking the victim because her sister doesn't have a phone.
The victim provided screenshots of messages, as well as Facebook posts, made by Wadkins.
One of Wadkins' messages states, 'When you randomly hear something snap, when you hear someone crying in the dark of the night. When you find a random drop of blood on the floor of your bedroom to the random prick your going to get from an AIDS needle just know it's me Unknown. And your not to far behind him.'
The messages do not have a name with the number, but when the victim replied to the messages by including Wadkins' name in her response, his reply stated, 'You better go get an AIDS test, b****.'
A criminal summons has been issued. If convicted, Wadkins faces up to four years in prison.
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