VA: Man pleads to making online threat

[seamusTX]

Earlier this year, a San Franciso transit policeman fatally shot an unarmed man in a cases that became controversial.

A 47-year-old man in Roanoke, Virginia, posted an explicit online threat to kill the officer on Alex Jones's InfoWars blog. The message included the words, "THIS ISN'T A THREAT IT'S A [DELETED] PROMISE..."

Federal officials (FBI?) investigated the threat, identified the poster, and seized his computers. They also found music and video files that allegedly violated copyright law.

Yesterday the defendant pled guilty in U.S. district court to one count of sending a threatening communication and one count of copyright infringement.

It was not the first threat that the defendant had allegedly made online against a police officer, but that charge was dropped.

It's unclear whether these offenses are misdemeanors or felonies.

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- Jim

[stevie_d_64]

"Stupid is, as stupid does." -- Forrest Gump (a wise, but simple man)