Driver Who Flunked Test Threatens to Kill Clerk: Police

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A Troy man who reportedly didn’t take it well when he failed his driver’s license test allegedly took it even worse when he was arraigned on assault charges, police said.

The trouble for Brandon John Boles, 22, started at a Michigan Secretary of State’s branch office in Troy on Friday, Nov. 13, after he allegedly threatened to kill a clerk after she told him he had failed his driver’s license test for the second time because he used his cell phone during the test.

“He almost immediately became irate over it and was screaming at her,” Troy Police Capt. Robert Redmond told WXYZ-TV.

He allegedly threw his test and a pencil at the clerk, striking her in the chest, and then leapt over the counter in an attempt to retrieve his identification and threatened to kill the clerk, leaving her “traumatized,” Redmond said, calling the incident “unbelievable.”

“I don’t think she’s going to get over it,” he said. “The scary part is the threat to kill the clerk over a failed test.”

Then, when Boles was arraigned later that day, he allegedly tried to choke a police officer. He was handcuffed at the time, Redmond said, but managed to get his arms around the officer.

Redmond said Boles “was choking the male officer while the female officer was interceding, trying to break the male officer free.”

The female officer’s arm was reportedly injured in the struggle.

Boles, who remains in the Oakland County Jail on $50,000 bond, originally faced misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct charges, but he was arraigned on Tuesday on felony assault charges in connection with the attacks on the police officers.