CHASKA, Minn. — A judge set bond for Jonathan Bohn at $1 million for threats by email to shoot up the state Capitol. Bohn, age 41, roams the Capitol regularly as a registered lobbyist for a faculty union that’s a collective bargaining agent for college professors. At the hearing, Carver County District Court Judge Eric Braaten also ordered Bohn, if released on bail, to stay at least a half-mile away from the Capitol. Bohn was ordered also not to contact the person to whom he was arguing online and to whom allegedly he made threats. Although the charge was serious in and of itself — threatening violence with reckless disregard — the case had a heightened profile because of the assassination a week earlier of state Representative Melissa Hortman and the attempted assassination of state Senator John Hoffman. At Bohn’s bail hearing were several of his colleagues from his employer as a lobbyist for the faculty union for professors in the seven-campus Minnesota State university system. His salary: $138,000.
Earlier: Lobbyist arrested for threat: “Have gun, will shoot”