EVERETT, Wash., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A Washington man with a history of violence allegedly threatened to kill a nurse who laughed at his plan to name his newborn after John Gotti, officials say.
John Keinath, a 39-year-old ex-con with felony convictions for drive-by shooting and beating someone with a pipe, allegedly warned the nurse at Stevens Hospital, "I'm going to put a cord around your neck, strangle you until you die, throw you in a ditch, and no one will ever know who did it," the Everett Herald reported.
Prosecutors obtained an arrest warrant last month after an informant tipped them off Keinath had learned the nurse's name and was allegedly threatening to harm her, the newspaper said Tuesday.
Police and U.S. marshals arrested him at gunpoint in Marysville last week.
The Everett man has been free since the March incident but Monday he was in Snohomish County Superior Court where Judge Kenneth Cowsert ordered him jailed in lieu of $1 million bail.
Deputy prosecutor Janice Albert said Keinath is also being investigated for a "softball-sized" amount of methamphetamine, the Herald said.
