According to an affidavit, an Emery County sheriff’s deputy received information from the Utah Statewide Information and Analysis Center that Christopher Justice, 28, had sent out threats on X, formerly Twitter, that included the following comments:

“I will be in (LaVell Edwards Stadium) Saturday. Any Ute fan I see is dead. Mark my words.”

“Anyone wearing red on Saturday is getting shot.”

“Come to (LaVell Edwards Stadium and enjoy a bullet to the head.”

Justice was arrested on suspicion of threat of violence and obstruction of justice and booked in the Emery County Jail.

The Utah Department of Corrections was made aware of the investigation because Justice was on probation, according to spokesperson Karen Tapahe, who said his probation officer was able to help local authorities speak to Justice before they decided to arrest him.

According to the affidavit, when the officer and parole officer visited Justice’s home, he said he had deleted X and that he “would never say anything like that.”

While the probation officer searched the house and found the X app on his iPad, the officer showed Justice the messages he received from SIAC and said the account the messages were posted from was linked to Justice’s cellphone, according to the affidavit.

The officer said the probation officer retrieved Justice’s cellphone and matched the serial number to the one in the SIAC packet, then went through his phone and found texts between him and a friend discussing the X account.

“In the messages they discuss deactivating the account. At one point in the conversation, (Justice) tells his friend ‘I’ll say I didn’t post them or its not my account if it goes this far,’ when talking about being confronted by the police,” the affidavit said.

When confronted about the texts, Justice admitted to making the posts and told police he lied because he was “scared of what could happen,” police said.