Maryland Man Charged for Making a Threatening Phone Call to an LGBTQ Advocacy Group

A federal felony criticism has been filed charging a Maryland man for utilizing the phone to threaten a gaggle that advocates for LGBTQ people.

In line with court docket paperwork, on the night of March 28, the sufferer group obtained a threatening voicemail from a cellphone quantity that investigators recognized as belonging to Adam Michael Nettina, 34, of West Friendship, Maryland. The message referenced the March 27 mass taking pictures at a college in Nashville, Tennessee, involving a number of taking pictures fatalities, the place the perpetrator was publicly recognized as being transgender. In the course of the name, quite a few threats have been made together with, “…We’ll minimize your throats. We’ll put a bullet in your head….You’re going to kill us? We’re going to kill you ten occasions extra in full.”

Nettina had an preliminary look yesterday in U.S. District Court docket in Baltimore earlier than U.S. Justice of the Peace Decide Matthew J. Maddox.

If convicted, Nettina faces a most sentence of 5 years in federal jail for interstate communications with a menace to injure. A federal district court docket decide will decide any sentence after making an allowance for the U.S. Sentencing Tips and different statutory elements.

Assistant Lawyer Common Kristen Clarke of the Justice Division’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Lawyer Erek L. Barron for the District of Maryland and Particular Agent in Cost Thomas J. Sobocinski of the FBI Baltimore Subject Workplace made the announcement.

The FBI Baltimore Subject Workplace investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Lawyer Paul E. Budlow for the District of Maryland and Deputy Chief Bobbi Bernstein of the Civil Rights Division’s Prison Part are prosecuting the case.