On January 16, 2016, 48-year-old Prescott Valley resident Timothy Burgess was arrested for Disorderly Conduct and Threatening to Cause Physical Injury. The incident involved a Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office records clerk working at the Prescott Office on Gurley Street. Burgess was booked at the Camp Verde Detention Center on the 2 misdemeanor charges and has since been released on a $1000 bond.
Background – Late afternoon the previous day, January 15, 2016, a man (later identified as Timothy Burgess), called the YCSO records office to complain about mail a Camp Verde Detention inmate was failing to receive. When the clerk told him he would be referred to a detention center representative, Burgess became upset. Burgess hung up and then called back approximately 8 more times to complain as to how the call was being handled. At one point, Burgess used several derogatory expletives and told the clerk, “You are going to have to leave that building tonight, you better be careful – Remember, you have to leave sometime.” He reminded her that he knew where she worked and suggested she should be “scared.”
The clerk reported the contact and explained she feared for her safety based on the threats. A YCSO patrol deputy was assigned to investigate. After researching the phone number used to call the clerk, the deputy eventually confirmed the number’s association to Timothy Burgess and the inmate he had referred to in the calls. Initially, there were several addresses in the area associated with the phone number. The following day, the deputy was able to confirm a current home address in Prescott Valley where Burgess resides. He was located and arrested without incident.
Burgess admitted his involvement adding that he had lost his temper during the calls.