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  • BULLETIN: South Carolina Man Indicted In Georgia On Charge Of Using Facebook To Threaten To Kill President Obama

    Patrick Randell McIntosh: Source: Fulton County Sheriff's Office
    Patrick Randell McIntosh: Source: Fulton County Sheriff’s Office

    BULLETIN: The U.S. Secret Service, the FBI and federal prosecutors in the Northern District of Georgia say a South Carolina man threatened on Facebook to kill the President of the United States.

    Patrick Randell McIntosh, 28, of Charleston, was indicted on charges of possessing three firearms and ammunition while under indictment for a felony and for threatening the life of the President.

    “Threats against the president of the United States and others we are statutorily authorized to protect are the Secret Service’s number one investigative priority,” said Reginald G. Moore, special agent in charge of the Secret Service Atlanta Field Office. “Every threat, no matter if made by telephone, in person, in writing, or on social media is examined to the fullest extent possible.”

    The FBI and the Atlanta Police Department assisted in the probe, prosecutors said.

    Today’s announcement of the McIntosh indictment marked the second time this week that an individual who allegedly used Facebook to threaten public officials was charged criminally. Lawrence Mulqueen, 49, was charged in New York with threatening to kill local, state and federal officials, including a threat to kill “every Congressional Black Caucus member there is.”

    From a statement in the McIntosh case by the office of U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates (italics added):

    According to United States Attorney Yates, the charges, and other information presented in court, McIntosh posted on his Facebook page his intention to shoot patrons at a local Atlanta lounge and to kill the president of the United States. After posting the various threats, the defendant purchased three firearms from individuals who advertised weapons for sale.

    McIntosh also threatened a woman in the Atlanta area. The woman reported to Gwinnett County authorities that McIntosh was stalking her. She gave police the location of a hotel where McIntosh was staying. Law enforcement officers subsequently arrested McIntosh at the location and recovered guns and ammunition in his possession.

    The threat against the President and the acquisition of the weapons occurred after McIntosh had been indicted in South Carolina for felony stalking, prosecutors said.

     

  • BULLETIN: Purported ‘Sovereign’ Indicted On Charges Of Threatening To Kill Public Officials: ‘Your Dirt Nap Is Coming Very Soon’

    americaatrisk4BULLETIN: A purported “sovereign citizen” from Nanuet, N.Y., has been charged under state law with criminal possession of a weapon and under federal law with threatening to kill public officials and inciting Facebook visitors to carry out political assassinations.

    Lawrence Mulqueen, 49, claimed that a county’s sheriff is “the highest law enforcer in all the land,” according to an FBI affidavit in the case.

    Mulqueen wrote that he “cannot wait to start killing the scum,” according to the affidavit. Intended targets included Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Sen. Charles Schumer, Rep. Nita Lowey, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Harry Reid and “every Congressional Black Caucus member there is.”

    “Your time is about up[,] scumbags,” Mulqueen wrote, according to the affidavit. “[Y]our dirt nap is coming very soon.”

    Meanwhile, according to the affidavit, Mulqueen called for snipers to shoot “inner city scum” from a distance of “at least 100 yards” or to stab targets “to conserve bullets.”

    “As alleged, Lawrence Mulqueen used the power and reach of Facebook to make incendiary threats, including the use of deadly force, against federally-elected officials and others,” said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York. “He even provided his like-minded Facebook friends with a virtual ‘how to’ on the most effective weapons to use in making good on those threats. The internet is a forum for free expression, but it does not give anyone a carte blanche to break the law.”

    One of the best weapons for assassination is a shotgun made in Italy, Mulqueen allegedly told an individual on Facebook.

    The investigation began when the Clarkstown Police Department (Rockland County) received a complaint about Mulqueen, officials said.

    “Overt threats of the sort made by this defendant against our elected leaders are especially troubling and must be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law,” said Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe.

    Added FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos: “The defendant is alleged not only to have threatened to kill elected officials. He did the virtual equivalent of standing in the town square with a megaphone, using his Facebook page to exhort others to carry out these assassinations. Freedom of speech is a fundamental right, but making overt threats is not protected speech, it’s a crime.”

    Mulqueen also called for the assassination of immigrants and called supporters of President Obama “traitor scum” who deserved to die, according to the affidavit.

    “I want these scumbags DEAD!!!” he allegedly wrote. “[F]*** them and death to them all.”