An Alaskan man was apprehended for making threats against six Supreme Court justices.
The suspect is accused of threatening to shoot, drown, behead, and lynch members of the court.
In Alaska, a man has been detained for reportedly making threats against six members of the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS).
On Wednesday, 76-year-old Panos Anastasiou was arrested for making threats against a federal judge and 13 counts of making threats in interstate commerce.
According to the indictment filed by the Department of Justice, Anastasio started sending threatening messages to Supreme Court Justices and their family members from around January 4, 2024.
The language used in the messages was violent, racist, and homophobic, and included threats of assassination through torture, hanging, and firearms, as well as urging others to engage in violent acts.
According to court documents, one SCOTUS justice was allegedly threatened by the man with allusions to "providing the rope" to "hang [them] from an Oak tree."
Other threats against the justices included claims of sending "fellow veterans" to "spray" their homes with gunfire, "hopefully killing" them, confronting them directly to "put a bullet in their head" and outlining schemes to kidnap them.
Anastasiou threatened to drown, strangle, lynch, and behead high judges.
Over a year, the suspect is accused of making threats, which the Department of Justice claims continued until July 16 of this year.
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He is charged with sending more than 465 messages via the Supreme Court's public website contact form.
On Wednesday, Magistrate Judge Kyle Reardon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska heard Anastasiou.
Each count of threatening a federal judge can result in a maximum prison sentence of 10 years, while each count of making threats to interstate commerce carries a maximum sentence of 5 years.
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