Canandaigua Police say they’ve charged a 50-year-old man from that city with both criminal contempt and aggravated harassment as a hate crime.
They say Michael Drake violated an order of protection by sending a threatening text message to a female after he’d been ordered to have no contact with her. The charges against Drake allege the message he sent to the African-American woman contained racial slurs and threats of violence against her and her children.
Drake was being held in the Ontario County Jail pending arraignment.