US EditionAlabama man charged with threatening rabbis, imam and others in multiple Southern states
Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker faces federal charges after threatening multiple religious leaders with weapons found at his Alabama home, law enforcement said.
- On Tuesday, federal prosecutors charged Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker of Needham, Alabama with an Interstate Communications Threat, and the Clarke County Sheriff's Office took him into custody.
- An FBI affidavit says Shoemaker made menacing calls and texts in 2024 to rabbis in Mountain Brook, Alabama, an Islamic center in Louisiana, a Georgia imam and a church in North Carolina.
- A search of his home found multiple firearms including a semi-automatic rifle, shotgun, handgun, boxes of ammunition, a body armor carrier, and papers listing names, addresses and phone numbers of religious leaders.
- Authorities praised rapid interagency cooperation and confirmed Shoemaker is held in the Choctaw County Jail after multiple law enforcement agencies acted within hours, Sara Jones said Friday.
- Court filings say Shoemaker claimed `satire`, that the messages aimed to intimidate, and that he has a diagnosed mental illness; his grandmother reported he refused medication, and an agent cited him saying, `I want you to die`.
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Alabama man charged with making threats to rabbis, an imam and others
Federal prosecutors have charged an Alabama man with making threatening calls and texts to multiple rabbis, an imam and others in the South, including telling one rabbi that “I want you to die.” Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker of Needham, Alabama, was charged with making an Interstate Communications Threat. He was arrested earlier on related state charges of resisting arrest and possession of a pistol by a person forbidden to legally have a handgun. An…
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Alabama man charged with threatening rabbis, imam and others in multiple Southern states
Federals prosecutors have charged an Alabama man with making threatening calls and texts to multiple rabbis, an imam and others in the South, including telling one that “I want you to die.”Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker of Needham, Alabama, was charged with making an Interstate Communications Threat.
FBI Arrests Mentally Ill Man for Threatening Rabbis, Imam and Others | Headline USA
(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors have charged an Alabama man with making threatening calls and texts to multiple rabbis, an imam and others in the South, including telling one rabbi that “I want you to die.” Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker of Needham, Alabama, was charged with making an Interstate Communications Threat. He was arrested earlier on related state charges of resisting arrest and possession of a pistol by a person forbidden to legally have …
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