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1/30/21
A registered sex offender faces charges that he stalked his ex-girlfriend and threatened to kill her.
Iowa City Police say that over the course of a month, 44-year-old Kennthony Jackson of East Burlington Street constantly called, texted, showed up at the workplace of, called the workplace of, and threatened his ex-girlfriend. The woman was forced to move because she felt unsafe.
Investigators say they found numerous messages on the woman’s and Jackson’s phones that, according to police, included a “constant flow of threats” including threats to kill the ex-girlfriend as well as “stomp” her at her workplace and put a gun in her mouth.
Police say Jackson admitted to threatening the woman, but he said he only did so because he was mad about money. He was booked into the Johnson County Jail Friday night and charged with Stalking and 1st Degree Harassment. If convicted on both charges, he faces a maximum of four years in prison.
Jackson already has a case management conference scheduled for Friday on charges that he violated the state’s sex offender registry on multiple occasions. Jackson was convicted of two counts of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse in Illinois in 1999.
A separate case management conference is set for February 15th after Jackson allegedly lied to police about a knife attack following a confrontation between Jackson and another of his ex-girlfriend’s ex-boyfriends at her then-Burlington Street apartment. Investigators determined the attack never happened.