OKLAHOMA CITY – A retired police officer living in southern Cleveland County was indicted in federal court here for threatening to kill Homeland Security employees at Will Rogers World Airport “for being corrupt and illegally holding my future wife in custody…”
Charles Dean Lack, 56, of Wayne, is accused of interstate transmission of threatening communications and threatening to murder federal law enforcement officers.
A preliminary/detention hearing in the case is set for Aug. 30 in the William J. Holloway Jr. federal courthouse in downtown Oklahoma City. Until then he remains in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
According to an affidavit filed by a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI received a “tip” from the agency’s National Threat Operations Center in West Virginia that Lack sent a text message in which he identified himself as a pilot and retired OKC police officer and declared:
“I’m fixing to head to” WRWA “to start killing every Homeland Security employee” for detaining his future wife. “I have all the proof and willing to give my life for her if it takes in killing everyone that is involved in this corrupt world of government employees… I turned this in to the FBI several months ago and nothing has been done so I feel like I should go solve this problem to get my future wife to get where she belongs and it’s not with Homeland Security at the airport. I’m not drunk and on no drugs I’m very healthy…”
Lack named the alleged victim – the FBI agent identified her by initials only: R.R. – and provided a date of birth and an address in California. “According to open-source information, R.R. is a famous MMA fighter” who is married to another well-known professional fighter “and they live in California,” the FBI investigator wrote.
Ronda Rousey is a well-known mixed martial arts competitor who is married to Ultimate Fighting Championship competitor Travis Browne. The couple, who live in California, welcomed a baby girl on September 27, 2021.
The August 5, 2022, threat “caused great concern” to airport officials, the FBI agent wrote. The Assistant Federal Security Director “was concerned specifically of Lack’s knowledge of aviation, airport layout, police tactics and weapons training.”
According to the affidavit, Lack sent a message to NTOC on 23 June 2022 in which he claimed, “She is my future wife flew in from California and Homeland Security has corrupt [sic] her and they will not release her to her freedom they keep her as a hostage in the airport in Oklahoma City…”
On August 6, the FBI contacted Lack at his residence. During that interview he “stated that he has been talking with who he believes to be R.R. for some now.” She calls him once a day, Lack said.
He admitted making the threat “but stated he did not intend to carry it out,” according to the affidavit. “Lack said no one would do anything about his concerns until he threatened to go the airport and kill Homeland Security agents.” He said he “made the threat to get the attention of various officials,” the FBI agent wrote.
Lack also claimed that “a person he believed to be Christopher Wray” asked him to send $700, after which “Wray” would send Lack $7 million.
Christopher Wray is the director of the FBI.