CHICAGO – A man has been jailed on a charge of threatening public safety after prosecutors accused him of threatening to kill a Cook County judge handling a civil domestic case involving him.
“I’ll beat the hell out of you, you stupid son of a bitch,” Marcos Ramos allegedly threatened as he stood before Judge Debjani Desai. “As soon as she gets off that couch, I’m going to shoot that son of a bitch.”
Ramos, 35, allegedly made the threats during a Jan. 8 hearing in Desai’s courtroom at the Cook County Juvenile Center, 1100 South Hamilton. The judge hears cases in the Child Protection Department.
The next day, prosecutors say, Ramos called the Cook County Prosecutor’s Office and identified himself as Ramos’ brother, Brandon.
“How can you take my children away from me?” he reportedly asked, apparently forgetting that he was supposed to be his brother.
Ramos then threatened to file a federal lawsuit through the state of Michigan, warning that he could not control his brother, according to the state’s criminal complaints. He allegedly gave the receptionist a 24-hour deadline “or bad things will happen,” adding that Ramos would “shoot up the courthouse” and that he could not stop his brother from doing so, according to the complaints.
He is charged with five counts of intimidation, two counts of intimidation, two counts of filing a false report, threatening a public official and resisting criminal mischief.
Judge Deidre Dyer granted the state’s request to keep Ramos in custody. In their petition, prosecutors said Ramos has two convictions in Ohio for “similar charges.”
According to court records, Ramos has two felony cases pending in the court’s Domestic Violence Division; one claims he was assaulted and the other claims he violated a protective order. Judge Desai does not hear any of these cases.
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