GEORGETOWN — A man, his mother and his adoptive father are facing charges following an interagency probe into reports of an assassination plot targeting a judge overseeing a child-custody case, Sheriff Mike Gleason said.
A bitter courtroom battle centered around a Liberty Hill family situation is believed to have sparked the incident, which led to extensive safeguards for the unidentified Williamson County jurist and his family, the sheriff added.
“The undertaking taken by the Round Rock Police Department, the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Marshal’s (Service) — what it takes to protect a judge, his wife, two children, the victim, her daughter and everybody involved 24/7 for almost three weeks to a month — was a huge undertaking providing massive manpower to provide protection for these people at all hours of the day and night,” Gleason said.
