The U.S. attorney’s office in the western district of Arkansas said today that Maverick Dean Bryan, 50, of Mineral Springs was indicted last week on seven counts of mailing threatening communications for sending threats to harm mayors of seven cities in Arkansas. He has a bond hearing March 28.

The letters went to mayors of Hope, Nashville, DeQueen, Ashdown, Lewisville, Prescott and Murfreesboro. The indictment doesn’t specify the content of the letters except to say they were threatening.

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