NC man charged with sending threatening emails to Jewish worship center, FBI says

A Piedmont Triad man has been charged after he allegedly sent threatening emails to a North Carolina Jewish organization.

Jeffrey Scott Hobgood, of Troy, was arrested and charged on Monday with communicating threats. Law enforcement alleges that he sent threatening emails to a family member last year and then sent antisemitic, threatening emails to an unidentified Charlotte-based Jewish organization, according to publicly filed court documents.

In June 2022, a woman reported to the Carter County Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee that Hobgood had sent an email threatening her and her husband. The victim also reported threats from Hobgood to an area FBI agent in September 2022, stating that he had both threatened her and the FBI and wrote in an email to tell “[victim’s husband] he will hang,” according to court documents. She reported these threats to her local police department and Troy police.

The FBI says, on Oct. 11, an email address associated with Hobgood sent an email to a Charlotte-based worship center, writing in part “I am going to take out every one of you” and “You can’t stop what is coming,” signed with the name J. Scott Hobgood.

Read more: WGHP (Greensboro, NC)