Posts Tagged ‘threats to life’

The U.S. Capitol Police hired three special prosecutors to investigate threats made to members of Congress and help prosecute threat cases involving members, the agency confirmed Wednesday to The Hill. The three attorneys are spread across the U.S., with one in Washington, D.C.; San Jose, Calif.; and Tampa, Fla., the agency confirmed. The first position…

A New York man has been charged with sending death threats to the state attorney general and the Manhattan judge who presided over former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case. Tyler Vogel, 26, of Lancaster, sent text messages late last month threatening New York Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Arthur Engoron with “death and…

The Kyoto Prefectural Police arrested a municipal government employee of Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Wednesday on suspicion of impeding Nintendo’s business operations by sending death threats. Kenshin Kazama, 27, has confessed to the offense, saying, “There is no doubt about it,” the police said. According to the police, between Aug. 22 and Nov. 29 last…

Two bomb threats led to a brief lockdown of the Norwegian parliament Wednesday, while lawmakers continued debate inside. Heavily armed police were posted outside the assembly and the surrounding streets was cordoned off. Bomb sniffing dogs were seen in action outside the building. The 169-member Storting was reopened after a bit more than two hours.…

A man is accused of threatening an election director during a recount of local elections during December, officials said. On Dec. 15, Andrew Fred Hess, 37, of Livonia, allegedly walked outside the recount room at Oakland County Complex in Pontiac and said, “hang Joe for treason,” in reference to the county elections director, according to…

South Korean police said they’ve found no explosives at Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome after searching the site Wednesday following a reported bomb threat against Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani. About 150 police officers used sniffer dogs, X-ray detectors and other equipment to search through the stadium, but no suspicious objects were discovered, according to…

An Oregon man was charged on Friday with felony threats and other improper influence in official and political matters after threatening to shoot a public servant and their co-workers in a governmental office, according to court documents. Scott Lee McClintock, 59, was told by a public servant working at a government office at the Department…

A federal jury has found a 32-year-old former Santa Cruz man guilty of threatening two FBI agents. The conviction of Brian Broderick on a charge of transmitting a communication containing a threat to injure came down March 8, after a one-week trial before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila. Before the threat, Broderick, a former…