Molester sentenced for threatening cop

A 47-year-old Elgin sex offender admitted this week to threatening to kill the officer who had arrested him on the sex charge three years ago.

Robert Dean Homfeldt of 333 Illinois Ave. pleaded guilty to threatening a public official -- a felony charge that stemmed from a menacing message he admitted to leaving on a Bartlett detective's voice mail this summer.

Prosecutors said that message included an expletive and the phrase "I'm going to kill you." The call, which police traced to Homfeldt, came in about 1 p.m. July 4, officials said. That's roughly the third anniversary of the day Homfeldt was arrested by the Bartlett detective on accusations of abusing a 10-year-old boy near his home.

Homfeldt, who at the time lived in Bartlett, pleaded guilty to criminal sexual abuse in summer 2004 and was sentenced to two years' probation, according to court records. He also had to register as a sex offender.

This week, in another plea deal worked out with prosecutors, Homfeldt was sentenced to another two years of probation for the threatening voice mail message.

His current status with the Illinois sex offender registry is listed as compliant, according to the state police Web site.