Carter John Manning

ELY- A Babbitt man was charged with felony threats of violence after suggesting he would shoot a woman in the face with a handgun last Friday evening at the Grand Ely Lodge. Hotel officials alerted the Ely police around 8 p.m. and officers later observed Carter John Manning, age 30, in the hotel’s pool area, leaning against a wall. Hotel staff told officers Bradley Roy and Charles Petersen that they had tried to convince Manning to leave the facility, but he refused.
While Petersen was talking to hotel staff, a woman approached Roy and told him that Manning had approached her with his hand in the shape of a gun. According to the arrest report, Manning put the “barrel” against her head and asked “Do you want to know what a nine millimeter feels like straight to the face?”
Roy reported that the woman was visibly frightened while speaking to him. That’s when the two officers took Manning into custody. He was later booked into the St. Louis County Jail.
Manning was enrolled in the conditional release program, which allows a release from jail without bail after agreeing to a set of binding set of conditions while undergoing the judicial process. He agreed to supervision by a parole officer, to not possess or handle firearms, and avoid all possession, purchase, and use of non-prescription mind-altering substances and places where alcohol and other drugs are sold. He was released on Monday of this week. His first hearing is next Monday, March 10.