Post by Logan on Jun 18, 2016 23:51:33 GMT -6
US grand jury indicts Worcester inmate for threatening to kill president
BOSTON — A Worcester man charged with threatening the president was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday.
Alex Hernandez, 31, of Worcester is to be arraigned Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Boston on two charges of threatening to kill and inflict bodily harm on the president, according to Christina Dilorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Boston.
Mr. Hernandez is serving a 5- to 8-year prison term at Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, stemming from a 2011 arrest in Worcester on gun and drug charges.
In early 2015, he allegedly told an undercover federal agent posing as an embassy worker that he wanted to attack the "house with the big people there." When asked if he meant the White House, the complaint indicated he said he did. During the investigation he allegedly told the agent he wanted to kill the president "because he is the one that gives the orders."
Read more: www.telegram.com/news/20160617/us-grand-jury-indicts-worcester-inmate-for-threatening-to-kill-president
BOSTON — A Worcester man charged with threatening the president was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday.
Alex Hernandez, 31, of Worcester is to be arraigned Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Boston on two charges of threatening to kill and inflict bodily harm on the president, according to Christina Dilorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Boston.
Mr. Hernandez is serving a 5- to 8-year prison term at Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, stemming from a 2011 arrest in Worcester on gun and drug charges.
In early 2015, he allegedly told an undercover federal agent posing as an embassy worker that he wanted to attack the "house with the big people there." When asked if he meant the White House, the complaint indicated he said he did. During the investigation he allegedly told the agent he wanted to kill the president "because he is the one that gives the orders."
Read more: www.telegram.com/news/20160617/us-grand-jury-indicts-worcester-inmate-for-threatening-to-kill-president