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Sun Apr 28, 2019, 02:58 AM Apr 2019

Report: Johnson Utilities owner threatened town manager with violence

The Florence town manager told police that the owner of Johnson Utilities threatened last year to cut his throat.

Newly released documents Thursday show that Brent Billingsley told police he got a call June 8 from George Johnson as the town manager was documenting utility company trucks leaking possibly contaminated materials on Diversion Dam Road. Billingsley said that lab results showed the spillage “has identical bacteria components to raw sewage.”

What followed, the police report says, was Billingsley getting a call from Johnson saying, “I’m tired of you sons of bitches,” and that “I’m going to cut your f—ing throat.”

Johnson, for his part, denied any such conversation.

“I’m a business person,” he told an investigator for the Attorney General’s Office, which took over the probe.

Read more: https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2019/04/26/report-johnson-utilities-owner-threatened-town-manager-with-violence/

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