Self-styled vampire jailed for threatening judge

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December 16, 2009 7:22 PM

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man who claims to be the leader of a group of vampires has pleaded guilty to charges that he threatened to torture and kill an Indianapolis judge and his family.

Forty-five-year-old Rocky Flash, also known as Jonathon Sharkey, was sentenced in a Marion County court on Wednesday to more than two years in jail.

Prosecutors say the man threatened to beat, torture, impale, dismember and decapitate Judge David Certo, who is presiding over another case involving Flash.

Flash claims to be the leader of a group called "Vampyre Nation." A call to a phone number listed on the group’s blog got a recording saying the call could not go through.

The Associated Press called Flash’s public defender for comment after hours, but the office was closed and didn’t have an answering machine.

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