Hawaii man with 2 prior federal threat convictions charged with threatening Whitmer, Michigan Capitol shooting

A Hawaii man has been charged with threatening Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and also threatening to shoot up the Michigan Capitol building in Lansing.

Ronald Saville, 48, of Honolulu, was charged by criminal complaint with sending interstate communications containing threats, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Hawaii said on Tuesday. He had an initial appearance on Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas and has been detained pending transportation to Hawaii.

The incidents that led to his arrest happened in May.

The Hawaii district attorney’s office said Saville is accused of sending an email on May 9 to Michigan State Police identifying himself, mentioning the Michigan capital, and saying he was going to walk in with a weapon, “and open fire and kill as many people as possible. I mean what I say I’m not a joke.”

A second email was sent shortly afterward, this time directed to Whitmer. The district attorney’s office said that the email included a threat that “on Tuesday second, Lancy, Michigan is never gonna be the same again going to walk into the state capital shoot it up and kill as many people as possible than I’m coming for you.”

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