A Windsor man faces as much as 20 years in jail after pleading responsible to violent threats in opposition to a medical facility in Springfield.
“They’re gonna get what’s coming soon. 3 years later I’m still in pain. You’re next. Now refusing to release medical records. Will be there in the morning to get them myself one way or another,” Michael Andrew Rodgers wrote in an April 5, 2023, publicly viewable Google overview of the unnamed medical apply in Springfield. Together with the textual content he posted a picture of a hand holding a gun.
The threats escalated in a prolonged fraud report tip he submitted on the medical facility to the Social Safety Administration’s Workplace of the Inspector Normal web site.
“I m gonna start taking what I need. By any means nessacary [sic],” the submission learn partly, in response to court docket paperwork. Many of the relaxation was written in all-capital letters: “GIVE ME MY MONEY OR IM GONNA START DROPPING PEOPLE. YOULL NEVER FIND MY WEAPONS SO STOP LOOKING AND GIVE ME MY CHECK.”
“NEXT TIME I SLICE SOMETHING OPEN. IT WONT BE ME. ITLL BE ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN ILL MERC A WHOLE SCHOOL AND NOT GIVE A (expletive),” the submission concluded. “SO YOULL BE MY FIRST TARGET IF YOU KEEP REFUSING TO HELP ME.”
Rodgers, 32, was arrested and charged in September 2024. He pleaded responsible in federal court docket in Springfield late final month to 1 depend of threatening interstate communications and one depend of extortionate interstate communications.
The risk cost carries a most of 5 years in jail whereas the extortionate risk cost carries a most of 20 years in jail. U.S. District Courtroom Decide Mark G. Mastroianni scheduled sentencing for Feb. 4.
Incident abstract
BPD stories that its officers responded to 270 incidents in its 24-hour report ending at 10 a.m. Friday. That features two robberies, six aggravated assaults, one residential housebreaking, three thefts from a automobile, 4 stolen motor autos and 15 situations of miscellaneous larceny.
Arrests
All the below-named defendants are presumed harmless till confirmed responsible.
– Derek Butler, 20 Atwood St., Mansfield. Possession with intent to distribute Class A medication.
– Tiffany Hill, 131 Highland Ave., Somerville. Shoplifting by asportation.
– Tyrone Wilson, 113 Dale St., Dorchester. Trafficking in 200 grams or extra of cocaine.
– Steven Narkum, 57 Roosevelt St., Revere. Possession of Class C medication.
– Davin Figueroa, 34 Bellevue St., Boston. Unlicensed operation of a motorized vehicle.
– Pre’onah Daybreak, 10 Marie St., Dorchester. Operation of an uninsured motorized vehicle.
– Kayode Awoyemi, 24 Alwin St., Hyde Park. Bank card fraud over $1,200.
– Bryan Fitzgerald Jr., no deal with listed. Use of a motorized vehicle with out authority.
– Lyla Jutras, no deal with listed. Use of a motorized vehicle with out authority.
– Kenneth Newman, 12 Seaver St., Roxbury. Assault and battery with a harmful weapon.
– Lamar Dowman, 976 Norwest Drive, Norwood. Operation of an uninsured motorized vehicle.
– Rodney Frederick, 10 Norton St., Dorchester. Firearm violation with three prior violent or drug crimes.
