US lawmakers often face threats via phone calls, letters, or in social media. Threatening a US government official is a felony under federal law, and could entail a lengthy prison sentence.
Brian Christopher King, 62, from Interlachen, Florida, has pleaded guilty to “transmitting communications in interstate commerce” with messages that contained threats of violence towards a lawmaker, whose name has not been revealed, the Justice Department said in a statement on Friday.
In March 2020, King, in one evening, twice reached a US senator’s office in Washington DC, according to the plea agreement.
According to the statement, King drew police attention in 2018 for similar incident, only receiving a warning, without arrest. King, however, continued placing threatening telephone calls. In 2020, King “called a police department in California and stated that he had heard someone was going to cut the heads off a particular US senator and a particular member of the House of Representatives.”
The suspect has not yet been officially sentenced, but could face up to five years in federal prison.
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