Man charged as Jacko death threat e-mailed

A 26-year-old Canadian man has been charged after allegedly e-mailing a death threat to pop star Michael Jackson.

Waterloo regional police said they were notified of the e-mail by police in Santa Barbara, California, where Jackson was making a court appearance on child-molestation charges.

The message was received on Monday at the courthouse, and authorities traced it back to an address in Kitchener, Ontario, said Sgt Bryan Larkin.

Waterloo police were then called to aid in the investigation and searched a house on Thursday.

Larkin would not discuss details of the threat and said he did not know if Jackson had read the message.