A California man was arrested and charged in connection with making violent threats to Massachusetts-based companies, Acting United States Attorney Joshua Levy’s office announced.
Daniel Nguyen, 34 was charged by complaint with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce, Levy’s office said in a statement. Nguyen’s first appearance in federal court was in San Francisco, while he is expected to appear in Boston at a later date.
Between January and February 2024, Nguyen made five phone calls to companies in Massachusetts, Levy’s office said. In his voicemails, he threatened to “shoot up” the offices of those companies with an AK-47 and told employees they were “all going to be [expletive] dead. It’s going to be a [expletive] bloodbath.”
Nguyen also sent threatening emails to businesses in Nevada and California, the statement read. He made “race-based threats” and said he would “shoot all you [expletive] [expletive]s dead and burn you [all] you [expletive] piece of [expletive] [expletive]s in the dump and ditches where all you [expletive]s belong.”
“The only good [expletive] is a dead [expletive] that is shot and killed,” he said, according to Levy’s office.
The charge of transmitting a threat in interstate commerce provides for a sentence of up to five years in prison, up to three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S.
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