LYNN – A judge ordered a mental-health evaluation and GPS monitoring for a city woman officials said threatened a man who allegedly assaulted her ex-boyfriend and also threatened the assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case because charges against the man were dropped.”While the defendant has no record, the threats were made on multiple dates and were made against not only a defendant but also against an assistant district attorney,” Assistant District Attorney Shailagh Kennedy said in Lynn District Court Tuesday. Kennedy said the defendant’s threats against her colleague included “I blame you all for ruining my life. So watch out pal,” and ?if this doesn’t go right, there’ll be not one murder there but two.”Meredith L. Lempke, 55, of 17 Beach Road #28, was arrested and charged in two cases. Lempke was charged with threats in the earliest case. She was charged with witness intimidation in the second case. She was arraigned on both charges Tuesday afternoon in Lynn District Court and a plea of not guilty was entered on her behalf.Lynn Police reported responding to the district attorney’s office on Central Avenue at 2:42 p.m. July 31 on a report of threats.The alleged victim told police he had recently returned a phone message from Lempke and left her a message including his office and cellphone number, according to the report.The alleged victim told police Lempke called him the morning of July 31 referencing a case where a man is charged with assaulting her ex-boyfriend. Lempke told the alleged victim she was surprised the defendant did not go to jail and if he did not go to jail the following day, “she would kill him herself,” and she “(didn’t) mind spending the rest of my life in prison for murdering him,” according to the police report.Later in the day, Lempke left voice mail messages where she is recorded saying the defendant’s “head is going to roll” and she would “smash him in the face until he is unrecognizable,” according to police.She also said, “I know where you practice law,” police reported.Lempke left further phone messages on Monday in which she asked the alleged victim, addressing him by name, what he was going to do about the case and if the city of Lynn needed to come after him with bats, according to a report by Lynn Police Officer David Hines.The alleged victim explained that day to police that charges against the man who allegedly assaulted the woman’s ex-boyfriend were dropped the previous week after the suspect had apparently moved to California and necessary witnesses failed to appear.Kennedy requested $25,000 cash bail. She also requested multiple conditions of release including the defendant have no contact and stay away from the named victim and all Essex District Attorney employees; that the defendant be monitored by GPS; and that the defendant have a mental-health evaluation and comply with all treatment deemed necessary.Court-appointed defense attorney Thomas Callahan said his client was willing to comply with all conditions but requested she be released on personal recognizance. He said his client had no prior involvement with the court system – although he mentioned she had been a paralegal for a law firm when she lived on Nantucket for 14 years.Moreover, she had little money and had a degenerative health condition that made her depressed, Callahan told the court.”Certainly these are very serious (charges) but she never intended to threaten (the alleged victim),” Callahan said. “She is just a depressed woman expressing frustration, and certainly now realizes the gravity of those phone calls.”Judge Matthew Machera ordered Lempke released on personal recognizance but ordered her to wear a GPS bracelet and abide by the requested conditions of release. However, Machera ordered Lempke held without bail without prejudice until a GPS unit was available.Lempke returned to court Wednesday for a status hearing. The GPS unit was not available and Judge Joseph Jennings ordered the case was continue
