An Alaska man has been arrested for allegedly threatening six U.S. Supreme Court justices.
Panos Anastasiou, 76, was arrested Wednesday on nine counts of making threats against a federal judge and 13 counts of making threats in interstate commerce.
“Beginning on or about January 4, 2024, Anastasio began sending messages intended to threaten harm and transmit threats of harm toward Supreme Court Justices. [and their family members]”, reads the indictment filed by the Justice Department.
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It continued: “The messages contained violent, racist and homophobic rhetoric, accompanied by threats of murder by torture, hanging and firearms, and encouraged others to participate in the acts of violence.”
Alaska man allegedly threatened Supreme Court judge with allusions to “providing the rope” for “hanging.” [them] “of an oak tree,” according to court documents.
Other specific threats against the judges included claims of sending “fellow veterans” to “spray” their homes with firearms, “in the hope of killing them,” confronting them directly to “put a bullet in their heads,” and outlining plans to kidnap them.
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Anastasiou also made specific threats of drowning, strangulation, “lynching” and decapitation to the various senior judges.
The Justice Department says the suspect's alleged threats continued for more than a year, until July 16 of this year.
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He is accused of sending more than 465 such messages, all through the contact form on the Supreme Court's public website.
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Anastasiou appeared before Magistrate Judge Kyle Reardon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska on Wednesday.
Each count of threatening a federal judge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Each count of threatening interstate commerce carries a maximum sentence of 5 years.
