More complete picture of threat case emerges

PALMER — Court records contain new details about a bizarre case last week in which a man called Alaska State Troopers hoping to fight them.

“I spoke with Bobby (Roberts), who sounded intoxicated,” Trooper Darron Cooper wrote in court filings. “Bobby asked why we did not come to his house to fight. I told him we would not go to his house to fight and that’s not what troopers do. Bobby insisted we were all ‘pussies’ and told me to come over to his house and bring all of my backup because he would take all of us out.”

That exchange actually came from the second call Roberts allegedly placed Nov. 4.

During the first call, Roberts allegedly asked for a fight, told dispatchers to get his address off of their computers and hung up. Cooper wrote that two troopers were on their way to Roberts’ residence when he called them back.

Dispatchers transferred the second call to Cooper’s cell and Roberts again hung up, but first threatened to hurt people at Four Corners Lounge to get troopers to fight him.

“I advised him not to do that,” Cooper wrote.

On his way to the bar, just to be safe, Cooper got another call from Roberts, who this time claimed he’d knocked somebody out at his house.

“In the background of the phone call, you could hear an unknown female screaming,” Cooper wrote.

With that, troopers decided to respond in force. All of the troopers on patrol that night went out, as did two highway patrol troopers.

“I was forced to call in three day-shift patrol units to cover the normal calls for service in the Valley,” Cooper wrote.

Troopers evacuated Roberts’ neighbors in his four-plex, but had some trouble contacting him. Cooper eventually moved his patrol vehicle closer to the four-plex and got on the loudspeaker.

“About 30 minutes into using my loudspeaker a male emerged from the four-plex,” Cooper wrote

It wasn’t Roberts, though. It was a roommate who said Roberts hadn’t actually knocked him out like he claimed.

The roommate “stated he wasn’t sure if Bobby was in the house and that he didn’t see him. (He) stated that Bobby was drunk and mad last night and was throwing stuff around the house and being drunk,” Cooper wrote.

The roommate and his girlfriend were the only two people in the house. Troopers called Roberts’ girlfriend and told her that she should urge Roberts to go to Mat-Su Regional Medical Center for a mental health evaluation. At 9:08 p.m. Nov. 4, 15 hours after the calls started coming into dispatch, that’s where troopers found Roberts, seeking a psychological evaluation.

According to court records, he has a relatively clean criminal history with just one DUI and one drug case out of Kenai in the past three years. Jail records show he has been released on his own recognizance.

In this most recent case, Roberts was charged with disorderly conduct, making a false report and terroristic threatening.

Contact reporter Andrew Wellner at andrew.wellner@frontiersman.com or 352-2270.