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Man charged for e-mail threats to NLV police chief
Thursday, July 30, 2009 | 1:21 p.m.
A Las Vegas man has been charged with sending threatening e-mails to the North Las Vegas police chief and deputy city attorney.
An indictment handed up by a federal grand jury on Wednesday charged Eric Christian, 37, of allegedly sending two e-mails to Police Chief Joseph Forti requesting help getting his car from an impound lot.
He also charged with sending a threatening e-mail to Chief Deputy City Attorney Michael Davidson requesting information about two court cases.
The second e-mail to Forti, sent on June 1, allegedly said: “I will have to kill to retrieve my stolen and items if you do not retrieve them,” and “Get my (expletive) car or watch a terrorist car thief DIE!!!”
In a June 4 e-mail to Davidson, Christian allegedly wrote: “Do not ignore me, because I just get more persistent and pissed the (expletive) off. It would be best to get the Writ of Habeas Corpus out of the way that way I don’t need to get a mob together and start a civil war to kidd Judge Van Landeschoot or YOU for terrorizing and violating the rights of American citizens!”
Warren VanLandschoot is a North Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge.
Christian was arrested on June 25 and remains in federal custody. He is scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen on Aug. 7 for an arraignment and plea.
If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each of two counts.
The case was investigated by the FBI and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Lucas Foletta.
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I'm surprised the police had time to deal with this when they're so occupied with much more important matters to investigate such as topless pools.
On the bright side, we'll get to see this dude on "America's Dumbest Criminals" soon!
Rather reminding me of a security guard who was getting a kickback from a towing company to mark cars with expired tags. Would I get 'equal justice' if I received threating email? I don't think so.