A Texas jerky vendor allegedly showed up at a Capital One office with a “machete and gasoline” and threatened to “do something unforgivable,” furious over a $543 debt, according to a federal affidavit. Ru.
According to an FBI affidavit, Taylor Bullard, 34, made financial statements several years after making similar threats against other companies, including threats to release anthrax and to shoot up company offices with an AK-47. It is said to have targeted major companies. Obtained by The Independent.
He emailed Capital One's collection agency on Dec. 12, angry that he was being chased for a $543 debt he claimed he had already paid, according to the affidavit.
“Call me before you show up at their location with a machete and gas,” Bullard allegedly wrote, according to a screenshot from the affidavit.
“I'm 34 years old with a job making over $100,000. It's time to target the people and companies that have ruined my ability to live the life I deserve,” the email said. “My ability to buy a house was ruined,” it said.
“I'm going to personally pursue your company's management. Please call me before you do anything unforgivable, and before you do anything that makes management question their life choices, please call me.” Please call me,'' he reportedly signed his full name.
According to the documents, investigators have identified at least three other incidents in which Bullard, who sold gourmet beef jerky online, threatened companies that he believed had treated him “unfairly.” It is said that it was discovered.
In 2017, he told an anonymous company that he would “spread anthrax at an event, commit suicide in public, or both.”
He told the FBI, which investigated the threat, “I wanted attention and I wanted to see businesses sweat, but I never intended to hurt myself or anyone else,” according to the affidavit. He reportedly gave a statement.
Bullard then left a voicemail in 2022 with the financial company's customer service number and threatened to “come into the branch with an AK-47 and shoot up the drive-thru.” [sic]and…damaged the ATM,” the affidavit states.
Later that year, he threatened violence against Carvana in a series of tweets after he claimed that an online car dealer had sold him a defective car.
“I'm going to deliver the lemons you sold me at i10 off in Houston to my door on Friday,” Bullard said in another social media post. “Prepare for chaos.”[.]”
He was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Houston on Dec. 20 and charged with transmitting interstate threatening communications.
If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to five years in prison.
He was released on $25,000 bail and will stand trial in Virginia, where Capital One is headquartered.
His lawyer was not listed, and his listed phone number went straight to voicemail, the Independent reported.
Capital One did not respond to the newspaper's request for comment.
The arrests come as U.S. companies have been on edge since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside a Manhattan hotel earlier this month.・Suspect Mangione is said to have been motivated by anger at the morals of the medical insurance industry.
