CHICAGO — A man has been jailed as a public safety threat after prosecutors accused him of threatening to kill a Cook County judge who is handling a civil domestic matter that he is involved in.
“I’ll beat the f*** out of you, you stupid b****,” Marcos Ramos allegedly threatened while standing before Judge Debjani Desai. “As soon as she gets off that bench, I’ll shoot that b****.”
Ramos, 35, allegedly made the threats during a January 8 hearing in Desai’s courtroom at the Cook County Juvenile Center, 1100 South Hamilton. The judge hears cases in the Child Protection Division.
The next day, prosecutors say, Ramos called the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and identified himself as Ramos’ brother, Brandon.
“How can you take my kids away from me?” he allegedly asked, apparently forgetting that he was supposed to be his brother.
Ramos went on to threaten to file a federal lawsuit through the state of Michigan and warned that he couldn’t control his brother, the state’s criminal complaints said. He allegedly gave the receptionist a 24-hour deadline “or bad things will happen,” adding that Ramos would “shoot up the courthouse” and he could not stop his brother from doing it, according to the complaints.
He is charged with five counts of harassment, two counts of intimidation, two counts of filing a false report, threatening a public official, and misdemeanor resisting.
Judge Deidre Dyer granted the state’s petition 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 misdemeanor cases pending in the court’s Domestic Violence Division; one alleges battery, and the other alleges assault and violating an order of protection. Judge Desai is not handling either of those matters.
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