By RUSSELL ANGLIN of the AMARILLO GLOBE-NEWS
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AMARILLO — A federal Bureau of Land Management engineer pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal charge after authorities said he threatened to kill a fellow employee at the bureau’s Amarillo office, federal court records said.
A sentencing date was not set.
Peter J. Madrid III, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty Tuesday in Amarillo’s U.S. District Court to one count of making a threat against a federal employee.
One of Madrid’s fellow employees told an FBI agent that Madrid told the witness he suspected another employee was stalking him and following him to work, records said. Madrid told the witness he was going to run the employee off the road, pull him out of the car and beat him, records said.
In July, a bureau manager told an FBI agent that Madrid made repeated threats to employees, and Madrid told the manager multiple times that he “hated (a fellow employee) so much that if he had a gun he would kill (the employee),” records said.
The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison, a $100,000 fine and a one-year term of supervised release following the prison sentence.
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Straight from the Horse's Heart 
So I guess we can change the phrase from going postal to going BLM?
What a bunch of wacks.
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LMAO!!!!! I was thinking the “postal” thing too. Difference? BLM DOES KILL LIVING THINGS ON A DAILY BASIS.
You gotta be whack to kill wildlife, ignore land rape by ranchers, mining and extractors, steal water., fraudulently sell public lands’ leases, blow up offshore oil wells because of poor inspection (BLMs sister subdirectorate) …and the list goes on.
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Could not have said it better myself!!
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No surprise that a BLM emplyee is threntening violence. Afterall most of them are violent towards our wild horses , and stats have shown animal abusers are human abusers as well.
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The BLM has some real crazies working for this fine government agency. It makes me feel really secure about our government. I would assume that some of the hired hands working for the BLM are Masochists, they enjoy hurting their fellow human beings and equines. Some of the Masochists are working right at the top of our U.S. Government. We the taxpayers pay their salaries. There is something very wrong with this picture that needs to be addressed.
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Do you mean sadists? Sadists enjoy causing pain to others while masochists inflict it upon themselves. I haven’t seen any evidence that members of the BLM are engaging in deliberate self-harm—although we can only hope that they have left a substantial enough record that it will be difficult for a new Congress to justify keeping them on.
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not only do we pay their salaries, they get a fully paid pension when they retire or are jailed! They can’t have any conscience, when they are so brutal with the gathers!
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Don’t the get health care until Medicare qualification, too?
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oops…”they”…
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My opinion of BLM is that they are unethical, unsrupulous, ignorant and barbaric. We should not have to pay the salaries of those who have brutalized and caused the deaths of horses for years. They have caused torture, suffering and starvation of horses by auctioning them off to unreliable persons who were not even qualified and who were not certified as reliable buyers of these horses. Now they sell directly to people who then sell the horses to slaughter houses?
I have had it with these people, and they should be held accountable for EVERYTHING they have done to EVERY HORSE, including the little foals they ran to death in stampedes and separated from their mothers. These people are uncivilized fiends. Now they are selling the horses to people who then sell them to slaughter houses? Who will deal with them? They should have been prosecuted for their continued refusal to stop their persecution of our horses, and now they are apparently getting rid of the horses in continuing unscrupulous and shady operations. THIS HAS TO END.
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I agree!
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T. Boyd: I’m with you. I would like to see all that have had any part in harming our horses and burros in anyway dropped from their previous helicopters in the middle of Death Valley. Let’s see in the middle of summer who can find their way out? This still won’t bring our beautiful horses and burros back but it might change many minds when they see what happens to people that harm our U.S. Icon “the horse and burro”. I have no feelings for these individuals and I still think this is too good for them. They are despicable and don’t deserve to breathe another breath. I hope God gives them what is coming to them when their time is up — and it can’t be too soon.
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I worked for a ranch one time that had a general manager and his wife pretty much running rough-shod over everyone and did some pretty un-ethical stuff regarding the treatment of employees. If you continue to do things like this and get away with it for so many years…you start feeling like you can do anything you please and get away with it. But sooner or later as with this guy… and them…it catches up. What goes around…comes around…pickin’ up speed.
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I am betting we will hear more of this coming from them they are all wacked, , this Agency will be dissolved and destroyed by the employees themselves, hard to work with the Horrors going on there !!!!
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Arlene. I agree, but it can’t come too soon. I wish it would come in the next second.
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Dear Lynne Jones, these employees are under all kinds of stress , they have to be for many reasons but ill bet most of them cannot live with the brutal destruction of the Mustangs, some of them have to be horse friendly, I do believe that they are on a self destruct mission nobody can be that Horrible to the beautiful horses and function on a daily basis,
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I believe they are at the breaking point !!!!!!
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I may not want to kill any BLM employees but I’ve spoken with quite a few I’d like to smack hell out of…LOL
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Did we expect any more from the BLM? Child molesters, etc if the truth comes out .
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I hate playing devil’s advocate for a BLM employee, however, Madrid felt someone was stalking him and secondly it was a conditional threat, “If I had a gun” I think that is the same as saying, If I had a million dollars …..The conditions of the threat were not fulfilled, so hardly a threat.
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Is it conditional in the fact that he didn’t have a gun with him at that instant…what happens if he still has a gun registered in his name but it’s at home or somewhere else…he still has a gun, is he showing potential? I know I would be concerned if some wack job said “I I had a gun I would shoot him” Just askin’
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IF i HAD A GUN. The Feds didn’t show he had a gun. I would not have pleaded guilty to that threat as it was a conditional threat.
I wish Ken Salzer would slip, fall and get his tongue stuck in an electrical 220V outlet. I think all those conditions would have to be met before anyone can say that is a threat.
Madrid said IF I had a gun and the statement shows he did not have a gun and he did not say he was going home to get a gun or buy a gun. He said IF I had a gun and there is no indication he had one. It is a conditional threat.
I think Madrid should have hired a better attorney.
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I wonder if the Feds did any follow-up regarding the other employee that was supposedly stalking Madrid. Did Madrid feel threatened by the other employee and was expressing how he would defend himself?
There is just too much missing information.
The BLM seems like a bunch of back biting, crazy employees. Can you imagine stalking a co-worker or even threatening a co-worker. These people are nuts.
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I’m beginning to believe, you have to be a “crazy” to work for this agency. I think they should all be “thrown to the wolves” and a new agency started with oversight by citizens loving our wild horses and burros and other wildlife. We don’t need these kinds of people in society. They are a danger to all.
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Abuse and murder of animals always leads to abuse and murder of humans!! Hmmm go figure
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Any member of the BLM staff who has anything to do with perpetuating the destruction of our wild horses and burros based on a science that the BLM has created for itself and facts they invented for themselves, anyone who made a decision about hiring any of the helicopter assassins, anyone who was in charge or making decisions about how horses were fed in short term holding as they transitioned from the range which led to horses dying from metabolic syndrome. We need to retire these field office managers who keep deciding to gather horses in spite of PZP treatments and despite previous gathers.
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Malfeasance of office.
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By the way, Mitt Romney told Obama he needed to fire Ken Salazar in March. Just found that link a few days ago.
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Are you serious?? Have not heard anything about this..
Can you perhaps elaborate more about this and please pass the link on to the rest of us.. Much aprreciated!!!! Just wish to find out Romney’s views and priorities.
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Was Madrid a possible “whistleblower” and railroaded?
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LNorman, you raise a VERY good question and one that warrants further investigation. Steps would more than likely be taken to have a Whistleblower either removed or discredited. A Whistleblower would certainly a threat to a corrupt agency, especially at this point in time.
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This guy pleaded guilty a little to quickly, hummmmmmmm this does warrant some further investigation, if there is one Ill bet there are going to be more!!!!!!
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