Hear the threats that an Alabama man pleaded guilty for sending to Mark Bunker

[Ricky Myers and Mark Bunker]

In May Tampa Bay Times reporter Tracey McManus revealed that an Alabama man named Ricky Myers had been arrested for making a series of threats against Clearwater city councilman Mark Bunker.

Bunker is known for his criticism of Scientology’s grip on Clearwater, but the threats by Myers did not reference Scientology. Instead, he accused Bunker of having “cut his throat” and putting him in prison for 17 years, and Myers vowed to cut off Bunker’s head.

Bunker told us in May that he didn’t want to say too much about it at the time, not as long as Myers, who had been arrested and extradited to Pinellas County from Alabama, was still going through the justice system.

Yesterday Myers pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor, and so now Bunker turned over to us evidence of the threats that he had received. We’re glad he’s fine, and that he had calmly saved these threats and turned them over to police.

We asked him if he had learned anything about why Myers might have made these threats, which didn’t seem to bear any resemblance to reality.

“No, I have no idea. I asked the state attorney’s office if he gave a reason but if he did it wasn’t shared with me,” Bunker said.

We know you’re curious about the threats themselves, so we put the three calls together in a single sound file, and you can listen to them yourself. Just please be warned that the language is awful and there are vivid suggestions of violence. The three separate voice mails were left at different times on October 19, 2022.

Three days later, Myers followed that up with additional threats at Bunker’s Facebook page.

Bunker told McManus that he thinks threats against politicians should be taken seriously.

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