A 57-year-old Brown County man will be in jail until his jury trial next month after he had his bond revoked in a felony intimidation case involving an Amazon delivery driver.
A hearing took place on Feb. 10 to revoke Drew Miller’s bond after Miller violated pretrial release conditions. Testimony from Miller, a relative and Sgt. Chad Williams with the Brown County Sheriff’s Department was heard before Judge Frank Nardi ruled Miller’s bond would be revoked, according to online court records.
Miller appeared via video from the jail.
His jury trial on the intimidation charge is scheduled for March 24. He will be held in jail on no bond until then or further order from the court.
Miller was charged with a Level 5 felony for intimidation after he allegedly threatened an Amazon delivery driver with a gun because of the driver’s ethnicity, according to court documents. He was charged with the felony in November after the incident in September, and was arrested and released on bond.
On Jan. 26, Miller was arrested again for operating a vehicle while intoxicated with a prior conviction. Williams stopped his vehicle on State Road 135 North after seeing it drive left of center and fail to stop at a stop sign. His report said that he smelled alcohol on Miller, and that he had slurred speech, slow dexterity and was verbally abusive.
A test administered at the Brown County Law Enforcement Center showed that Miller’s blood alcohol level was 0.269, more than three times the legal limit.
Miller was charged with three Level 6 felony charges for operating a vehicle while intoxicated — endangering a person, operating a vehicle with and ACE of 0.15 or higher, and operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He has a trial scheduled for April 28 in that case.
Prosecutor Ted Adams filed a motion to revoke Miller’s bond in the intimidation case on Jan. 27. The conditions that allowed him to be out on bond included him not getting arrested on another charge.
In September, police were dispatched to Miller’s home after an Amazon driver reported that he was making a delivery when the homeowner pulled a gun on him. The police report said that Miller exited his truck with a chrome-plated .25-caliber semi-automatic pistol, calling the victim several names referring to his ethnicity and telling him he should go back to where he came from. Miller said if the man did not get off his property, he was going to shoot him.
Miller also allegedly told the driver’s trainer to tell Amazon if they ever send anyone but a white man to his house, he is going to shoot them, the affidavit said.
Miller told police that he had seen the driver pick up rocks to throw at his dogs. He initially denied that he pulled a gun, but later told police that he did have one behind his back and the drivers must have seen it when he was getting out of his truck.
