A man who threatened to kill then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 was arrested again Wednesday, this time for threatening to kill another Boot Key Harbor man and his family, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
Raymond Hunter Geisel, 29, faces a felony assault charge.
Geisel has had a cantankerous relationship with other boaters at Boot Key Harbor in recent years. The most recent incident came earlier this month when two men were charged with beating him, according to the MCSO.
According to reports, Geisel tied off his boat to the boat owned by Anthony Wollweber, 33, about 1 p.m. and boarded Wollweber's boat while he was not aboard.
Wollweber is one of the men, the other being Michael Payne, 34, who reportedly beat up Geisel in a wooded area behind the Home Depot on March 31, reports say. That case is pending in court.
Wollweber's 11-year-old son and his daughter, whose age was not listed in the report, were on board when Geisel reportedly told the boy: "I'm going to kill your whole ------- family."
Geisel was reportedly wearing a sheathed knife on his hip when he threatened the boy, reports say.
He was taken to Monroe County Detention Center on Stock Island where he is being held without bail.
Geisel was sentenced in December 2009 to 16 months in prison in the Obama case, but received credit for time already served following his arrest in August 2008. He then spent the next three years under supervised release, court documents state.
He had an arsenal of weapons and military gear in a Miami hotel room at the time of his arrest.
Geisel made the threats while at a class in Miami to become a bail bondsman.
Geisel used a racial slur referring to Obama and added, "If he gets elected, I'll assassinate him myself," reports say. Another student heard Geisel say he wanted to put a bullet "in the president's head," referring to Bush.
Agents said Geisel told them that if he wanted to kill Obama, he would simply shoot him with a sniper rifle.
A loaded handgun, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, body armor, a stun gun, machete, combat knives, tear gas and military fatigue uniforms were found in his hotel room and in his 1998 Ford Explorer. The sport utility vehicle was wired with "police-type emergency lights," according to a Secret Service affidavit.
He was most recently arrested in April 2013 for possession of a black powder North American Arms revolver by a convicted federal felon. Sheriff's Office deputies, Coast Guard and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers raided Geisel's sailboat on a search warrant after police received information that Geisel was armed.
Geisel is from Bangor, Maine, and moved to Boot Key Harbor in 2008. He has lived aboard a boat since that time.
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