A federal grand jury has indicted a Pennsylvania man for threatening President Joe Biden, House Jan. 6 Committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS), and a federal judge.
The Justice Department announced on Wednesday that 25-year-old Robert Maverick Vargo of Berwick, Pennsylvania, had been charged with threatening the President, sending interstate communications with a threat, and influencing a federal official by threat.
Vargo allegedly sent a letter to Thompson’s office at the Rayburn House Office Building in which he allegedly vowed to kill the congressman and his family, along with Biden and U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani.
The letter, which the office received on Oct. 11, specifically cited Thompson’s work on the Jan. 6 committee as a point of anger for Vargo, the DOJ’s announcement said.
“Im [sic] going to kill you! I will make you feel the rest of our pain & suffering,” Vargo allegedly wrote. “There is nowhere or nobody who can keep you from me. I am going to kill you & those you love. I promise you that I will keep my promise until the day of my death.”
Vargo allegedly warned Thompson that he and Biden “soon will face death for the wrongs you’ve done to US.”
The letter also alluded to anthrax and contained what looked like white powder, according to the Justice Department.
However, the U.S. Capitol Police’s Hazardous Material Response Team found that the powder “did not pose an immediate public safety hazard,” the DOJ said.
Vargo had allegedly sent the letter and powder from the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He was being held there on a burglary charge, along with a prison escape charge he’d been handed after escaping the facility in the summer.
If convicted on the new federal charges, Vargo will face up to 25 years in prison.
The case is being handled by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Just wow…
The threat is real, but is there any liklihood of success? Yeah, doesn’t seem like it, but clearly this person needs a LOT of help. Sad
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Not in his case. He’s so dumb that he sent these threats from jail. Correspondence from prisons and jails are stamped letting the recipient know that the sender is an inmate and where they’re housed. Considering they’re charging him just nine days later, finding him was probably like looking for a needle in a sewing kit.
Problem is, there will be a whole lot more of these threats.
The more of them there are, the greater the probability that one of the threats becomes a reality. With the mentally ill people out there who have no filter and all the support of much of the media and party apparatchiks (to wit, Jan 6), it’s only a matter of time before someone they don’t like winds up pushing up daisies.
If there’s anything left.
LOLOL