A New Mexico man is facing a federal charge for allegedly threatening to kill President Joe Biden and others in text messages he sent to people in two states. John Benjamin Thornton is charged with using interstate commerce communications to send a threat to injure another person. The rambling texts included as evidence in a court document include statements that he was ???taking leadership of revolutionary Army called the the [sic] 3%ers,??? an apparent reference to the anti-government Three Percenters group. Calling himself a ???revolutionary war general,??? Thornton is accused of texting ???5 stars after I execute Joe Biden for Treason.??? FBI investigators do not identify in the charging document who received the text messages or whether they had any prior connection to Thornton. The messages also claim that a Canadian computer company was using a device to ???Tunnel into the Brainwaves of ALL Methamphetamine users Brainwaves, globally.??? He threatened to ???shotgun execute every single one of them??? at the company and added, ???my ex wife is a traitor and is likely to be executed by my new government.??? The FBI says the messages were sent from a phone owned by Thornton and included a photo of him. According to Special Agent Ryan Buckrop, ???Thornton has been the subject of complaints since November 11, 2020, by several persons who have received messages characterized as disturbing or threatening since that time.??? Thornton is being held without bond, according to Do??a Ana County Jail records. Court records indicate that he had not been appointed an attorney as of Wednesday afternoon. Thornton is scheduled to appear remotely for a federal court hearing Friday morning.

В американском штате Нью-Мексико задержали мужчину, который намеревался совершить покушение на президента США Джо Байдена. По данным следствия, 39-летний Джон Бенджамин Торнтон отправлял письма с угрозами расправы нескольким людям в разных штатах. В частности, он намеревался убить сотрудников канадской компании по созданию квантовых компьютеров D-Wave Systems, а также американского лидера «за измену».

По данным ФБР, граждане, которые получили подобные рассылки от Торнтона, обращались в правоохранительные органы еще в ноябре прошлого года после прошедших в Соединенных Штатах президентских выборов. Материалы с похожими заявления также были обнаружены на странице злоумышленника в Facebook.
Судебное заседание по делу Торнтона запланировано на пятницу, 28 мая. Оно должно пройти в Нью-Мексико.