An Alaska man threatened to skin a Republican senator and wear the flesh “like clothing,” according to federal authorities.
Arthur Charles Graham, of Kenai, Alaska, was arrested Monday. Graham, 46, was charged with knowingly and knowingly transmitting interstate and foreign commerce communications containing threats to kidnap and injure a U.S. senator.
On September 28, Mr. Graham is accused of sending a threatening email to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) through the senator’s website.
“Until we receive new information, [United States Senator 1]My plan is to hunt you down, cut the flesh from your body, and wear your skin like clothing,” one person said. federal complaint Unsealed this week. “I live in you [United States Senator 1]. ”
In an email, Graham allegedly said he was being evicted and was “in the dark here.”
Graham reportedly said he had “nowhere else to live” and that he was “inevitably going to be homeless” like he was “when I was little”.
He added: “Then I’m going to cut off your skin and wear it as clothes. Oh, I said it already. Someone call the police.”
Congressional staff alerted the U.S. Capitol Police Threat Assessment Unit on Oct. 3.
On October 10, FBI special agents interviewed Mr. Graham at his home in Kenai, Alaska.
FBI agents said Graham confessed to sending threatening emails to Murkowski. Graham told investigators he knew sending the messages was against the law, according to the criminal complaint.
The Justice Department did not respond to requests for comment. NBC News.
Mukavsky was the target of another death threat. In April 2022, Jay Allen Johnson pled guilty to two counts of threatening to kill two U.S. senators from Alaska and was sentenced to 32 months in prison and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine. Ta.
Mr. Johnson, 65, from Alaska, threatened to kill Republican Sens. Murkowski and Dan Sullivan. According to court documents, he left 17 threatening voicemails over a five-month period for two U.S. senators from Alaska.
Ministry of Justice said:
On September 2, 2021, Mr. Johnson left a voicemail at Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s Washington, D.C., office containing several threats, including a threat to “burn” the senator’s property. Johnson then asked if the senator knew what a .50 caliber shell would do to a human head. On September 29, Johnson left another voicemail threatening to hire an assassin to kill the senator. Mr. Johnson also left threatening voicemail messages for Sen. Dan Sullivan between April 2021 and September 2021. One of them pulled out a “.50 caliber,” kept a “GoFundMe page for shells,” and threatened to “bring the ammunition.” Mother of revenge. ”
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