NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A 31-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested Friday for threatening to murder two IRS agents — once in response to learning his stimulus check was mailed to the wrong address and once because he was frustrated filing taxes, according to federal prosecutors.
Jamel Jackson was at the Taxpayer Assistance Center at MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn on Jan. 10 when he flew into a rage at being told he’d have to wait up to six weeks to get his check.
“I will literally do life in jail for my money! Do you understand that?” he told an IRS agent according to the New York Daily News. “In six weeks ... when I come back, I’m trying to find out where is my money. After that, I’m coming off my hip! You understand?!”
Just months before, on Sept. 2, he allegedly threatened to kill a different IRS agent who was helping him with his taxes.
“I will snap your neck! I kill people! I’m on trial for killing people,” he told the employee in response to a request for tax documents.
Jackson was not on trial for killing people.
He then attempted to remove a pane of glass separating him from the agent before he was removed by security.
Jackson has an open assault case for allegedly attacking an elderly person in Manhattan. He also pleaded guilty to a robbery in 2008.
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