A Cape Cod man who allegedly threatened to homicide a federal official and members of their household is in custody after authorities arrested him on a prison grievance.
Authorities charged Michael P. Mahoney, 62, of South Dennis, with one rely of transmitting interstate threats to injure one other individual, days after he allegedly referred to as the official’s relative and threatened to kill the member of the family and their partner in addition to the federal official.
Massachusetts US Legal professional Leah Foley’s workplace didn’t disclose the identities of these whom Mahoney allegedly threatened to homicide, but it surely added in a launch that the official is “prominent.”
The official’s relative is alleged to have been having dinner with two different people at a location exterior of Massachusetts at about 10:15 final Friday night time after they obtained a telephone name with “No Caller ID.”
“Upon answering the phone, the caller, later alleged to be Mahoney, confirmed the relative’s full name,” Foley’s workplace stated in a launch. “Mahoney then allegedly started to scream and stated that he was going to murder the relative, their spouse and the federal official – allegedly referring to the spouse and federal official by their first names – and said, ‘Die you f*****g c**t mother f****r.’”
The relative ended the roughly 12-second name and declined to reply Mahoney’s try and name again.
On Saturday, regulation enforcement approached Mahoney’s residence after figuring out the telephone quantity that made the “threatening call” as Mahoney’s. The person allegedly refused to answer police at his door or on the telephone.
A federal decide remanded Mahoney to the custody of the U.S. Marshal Service after an arraignment in Boston federal court docket Wednesday afternoon. Mahoney’s detention listening to is scheduled for subsequent Tuesday.
Mahoney may face a sentence of as much as 5 years in jail, three years of supervised launch, and a high quality of as much as $250,000 on the cost of transmitting interstate threats to injure one other individual.
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