Roswell man pleads guilty to violent threats against NM elected officials

Federal prosecutors announced Monday that a New Mexico man pleaded guilty to making multiple bomb threats to elected officials in New Mexico and Pennsylvania, according to a news release.

Jeffrey Ramon Diaz, 43, of Roswell, will face up to 10 years in prison following his guilty plea last month to four counts of “malicious threat to injure by fire or explosive,” according to Tessa Duberry, a spokesperson for the United States Attorney’s Office of New Mexico, in a news release.

Prosecutors said Diaz identified himself by name, after calling himself “perdido,” or “lost” in Spanish, before threatening in phone calls Feb. 14 to light on fire or bomb offices of a United States senator, New Mexico Second Judicial District Court, the Doña Ana County Magistrate Court and the Pennsylvania governor.

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