Massachusetts Man Arrested for Making Violent Threats Against Officials, Private Individuals and Children

A Wilbraham, Mass. man has been arrested and charged for allegedly making numerous violent threats on social media targeting certain officials and their families, private individuals, children and sensitive locations such as shopping malls and an elementary school.

Funwayo Mbilini Nyawo, also known as “Jonathan Funwayo Nyawo,” “Michael Jacobs,” “Robert Jacobs,” and “Carl Fields,” 36, was charged in the District of Massachusetts with one count of interstate transmission of threatening communications. Nyawo was arrested yesterday in the Southern District of Florida and ordered detained until his appearance in federal court in Springfield, Mass., which will take place at a later date.

According to the charging documents filed in federal court in Springfield, Mass., between approximately July 30, 2024 and Nov. 7, 2024, Nyawo posted various threatening communications on X (formerly known as Twitter) and Google targeting certain officials and their family members; private individuals; the children of Wilbraham and Boston; members of the Wilbraham Police Department, Wilbraham Fire Department and the Miami Police Department (and their family members); shopping malls in Holyoke and Burlington, Mass.; and an elementary school, among others.

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