Michael R. Hoyt, 44, is scheduled for a hearing later this month to determine whether he’s competent to stand trial. Court documents show Hoyt’s hearing is set for 9:30 a.m. April 29 in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati.
Hoyt was indicted in January and had been at a federal medical center in Massachusetts for mental evaluation and treatment. But Hoyt returned to the area in federal custody and was booked into Butler County Jail on April 8.
Hoyt allegedly “threatened to murder John Boehner” by shooting him, according to a federal complaint and arrest warrant filed last November. Hoyt, a former bartender at Wetherington Country Club in West Chester Twp., had also made threats to poison Boehner’s drink at the club. The speaker is a member of that same country club and lives near the club.
The alleged plot to kill Boehner started to unravel when Hoyt called 911 on Oct. 29, the day he was fired from his bartending job at Wetherington. He only provided the 911 operator with his first name and asked the operator to “tell his father that he was sorry.”
That prompted local law enforcement officers to go to his Deer Park home to talk with him. Hoyt told police about his issues with Boehner, admitted to having a loaded Beretta .380 Automatic handgun, and said “he was going to shoot Boehner and take off,” according to court documents.
Hoyt also told police, and later federal investigators in the psychiatric ward at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, that he regretted that “he did not have time to put something in John Boehner’s drink.”
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