MINNEAPOLIS (KFGO) – A West Fargo man has been charged with threatening to murder his probation officer.
The Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office said Robert Ivers, 69, became upset following a Nov. 17, 2022 hearing to revoke his probation for a 2018 felony conviction. He was taken to an interview room where he pounded his fists on a table, broke a chair leg and threw his paperwork while continuously screaming the word “hate.”
Prosecutors said when leaving the interview room, Ivers extended his middle fingers and said he would find someone to kill the probation officer.
Iver’s 2018 conviction was for threatening to murder a federal judge in St. Paul. He threatened to kill Judge Wilhelmina Wright after she ruled against him in a lawsuit he filed against an insurance company that refused to pay out on a policy.
“You don’t know the 50 different ways I plan to kill [Wright],” Ivers allegedly told one of his attorneys.
He was sentenced to 18 months in prison in that case.
The probation revocation hearing for that conviction came after he left a profanity-laced voicemail on his probation officer’s telephone in 2020, which was a violation of his parole.
In 2016, Ivers ran for mayor of Hopkins, Minnesota. During a candidate debate, Ivers referred to minorities as “ethnics” and “coloreds.”
He also said that a proposed light rail line would bring “riffraff and trash from Minneapolis.”
