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Luther Daukei
WATONGA – A Watonga man was arrested last week after he allegedly threatened to “blow up” houses and kill several officials during a recorded phone call with an inmate at the Blaine County Jail.
Luther Daukei, 38, has been charged with multiple counts of making a telephone bomb threat. According to court documents, Daukei told arresting officers that he “was just saying stuff” out of anger and had no intention to follow through.
The call in question took place on Oct. 14, according to a probable cause affidavit. It was an outgoing call from a Blaine County inmate to Daukei, and took place about 11:46 a.m.
The inmate informed Daukei of her sentencing, and he became irate when he learned that she’d been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. He threatened a Watonga man by name, said he’d blow the man’s house up, and that he hoped the man “dies tonight.”
The inmate warned Daukei she’d been told previously that their phone calls were being listened to. But Daukei only responded by threatening the district attorney and his family, as well as the judge involved. “I’ll blow up all they … houses,” Daukei is recorded as saying in a profanity-laced rant.
By 12:45 p.m. that day, Sheriff Travis Daugherty had played the recording for a sheriff’s deputy. The two “patrolled Watonga” to locate Daukei and found him around 1:26 p.m. near the intersection of 3rd and Leach.
When Daugherty told Daukei he was under arrest for making terroristic threats, Daukei said he was “just saying stuff” because he was “mad” about the inmate’s sentence.
Daugherty cut Daukei off so he could read Daukei his rights. “And if you want to talk to us then you can,” Daugherty said, according to the affidavit.
Each of Daukei’s four bomb threat counts are pun ishable by nine years to life in prison. Daukei has been previously convicted of leaving the scene of an injury accident, and twice of domestic violence, according to court documents.