{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Forty-four year old Thomas Edwin Hargreaves from East Liverpool, Ohio says the threat to kill Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear amounted to overheated rhetoric while complaining about losing a commercial driver's license, but to the FBI, the comment came across as a serious threat. To Hargreaves' Lexington attorney, Robin Cornette, it is a sign of the man's mental illness. Cornette wants Hargreaves to undergo competency tests and introduce evidence of insanity or mental defect should his case go to trial. A federal grand jury in Lexington charged Hargreaves in August with sending Beshear a message over the Internet saying, "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU ... WATCH YOUR BACK PIG!" He has pleaded not guilty. Federal investigators raided Hargreaves' home and arrested him in September. Since then, he's been held in the Grayson County Detention Center in Leitchfield, awaiting trial. Hargreaves has written five letters to the federal court clerk in Lexington asking that the case be dismissed. U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves had not ruled on Cornette's request for a competency hearing as of Monday. A pre-trial hearing is set for January 10th.
