A 32-year-old Gardnerville Ranchos man was sentenced July 22 to nine months in Douglas County Jail for threatening his wife and an office worker at her church.
"Your conduct was within a heartbeat of being on the front page of the newspaper as a murder-suicide," East Fork Justice Jim EnEarl told Jonathan Pierce.
"You terrorized people at church, you terrorized your wife," he said. "You pleaded guilty, you were out of jail for a week and you used methamphetamine. All of this is meth-driven."
He told Pierce his first inclination usually isn't to reincarcerate a defendant for violating probation, but Pierce has had several opportunities.
"This isn't about you. It's about your wife, the members of your church, those whose lives you adversely affected," EnEarl said.
The victim told deputies Pierce was the subject of 16 crime reports and multiple restraining order violations.
EnEarl said he was unwilling to take more chances with Pierce.
"I can't fix it. Only you can fix it," EnEarl said. "All I can do is remove you from the community."
Pierce told EnEarl he respected the decision.
"The Lord's will be done," Pierce said. "It is just."
"I can assure of this," EnEarl said. "It isn't the Lord's will you conduct your life in the way you have."
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