Posts Tagged ‘threats to life’

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of a Colorado man convicted of making “true threats” who repeatedly sent abusive messages to a local musician. The court said Billy Counterman’s conviction for sending Facebook messages to singer-songwriter Coles Whalen was based on the wrong legal standard. On a 7-2 vote, the justices ruled that the…

The county election worker was crossing the street with a locked bag full of ballots when he saw a Jeep Gladiator pickup truck come around the corner. It sped toward him and slammed on the brakes, skidding to a stop just past him. The driver glared. “Then she leaned out of the car and looked…

A series of threatening letters containing a mysterious white powder is raising concerns that Republican lawmakers in Kansas and across the nation who received them are being targeted by someone cryptically calling themselves “your secret despirer,” according to authorities and recipients of the letters. Since Friday, about 100 letters have been received by Kansas GOP…

Atlanta City Council members say they are receiving death threats after voting in favor of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center last week. Some council members say it’s gotten so bad they now have police posted in front of their homes. One of those council members who says he’s on the receiving end of some…

A Colorado man who admitted to threatening the lives of an Arkansas judge and a probation officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Theodore Howell, 29, of Denver, pleaded guilty Monday to threatening a judicial officer/juror and terroristic threatening, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Howell was accused of sending the threats in March via…

A 40-year-old New York man has been charged for terroristic threats he allegedly made to the imam of the New Brunswick Islamic Center in North Brunswick. Khaliyk Sellers, of the Bronx, was arrested without incident May 27 in Pennsylvania where he also is facing weapons charges, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said. The Islamic Center’s…

GARRETT SANTILLO, 43, of Hamden, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to mailing numerous threatening letters to individuals in Connecticut and elsewhere. According to court documents and statements made in court, between approximately December 2021 and June 2022, Santillo mailed more than 100 letters containing threatening and hateful statements,…