Texas pilot gets 30 days for death threat

Prior to pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge in February, Patrick Trevor White faced up to five years in prison for harassing calls and text messages he allegedly made to the director of operations at Skyway Charter LLC. The messages began after the company rescinded a conditional offer of employment following White’s failure to pass a preemployment alcohol test, and intensified around the time investigators were told by the victim that White would have learned the failed alcohol test would prevent him from renewing his FAA medical certificate.

According to the original complaint, White failed a March 4, 2024, drug and alcohol screening, with a blood alcohol level of 0.04, and began calling the victim’s cellphone following receipt of a March 14, 2024, email rescinding the offer of employment. The calls stopped after five days, according to the document, then resumed June 28, 2024, with voicemail messages including “I love the street you live on” that the victim took as threats.

The charter company staffer told investigators the resumption of messages likely coincided with when the defendant “attempted to renew his FAA airman medical and was notified he was unable to do so because of the pending violation. This would render [White] unable to fly an aircraft legally.”

White sent a profanity-laced death threat in a voicemail left on July 2, 2024, vowing, “I’m coming after you … I’m being evicted … I’m going to [expletive] kill you.”

The victim told investigators they feared White would travel to Florida to make good on his threats, according to the original complaint.

White pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in February and was ordered on April 8 to report to the U.S. Marshals Service (two blocks from the federal courthouse in Waco) on April 12 to begin his sentence, court records show.