A 26-year-old Yorkville man who allegedly made threatening phone calls to authorities and a business — at one point, saying he would “kill the whole city” — faces several charges.
The Yorkville Police Department said someone called emergency dispatchers several times on Saturday and said he would kill police, paramedics and a 9-1-1 dispatcher.
“The caller then proceeded to threaten to ‘kill the whole city’ and that he would start going around the state of Illinois to shoot people,” police said in a news release.
The caller also contacted a business and “threatened acts of violence against this business and its employees,” police said.
Early Sunday, Claude Gauthier was taken into custody by the Kendall County Special Response Team at his residence, police said.
He faces two counts of making a terrorist threat and two counts of falsely making a terrorist threat, police said.
Gauthier was being held on a $1 million bond at the Kendall County Jail, authorities said.
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