A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a 46-year-old Des Moines man on 16 counts of Internet threats of violence and identity theft.<\/p>\n
The indictment charges Gino A. Turrella with transmitting threats, via e-mail, on eight occasions between May 2, 2008 and May 30, 2008, to Boeing facilities and an Anacortes oil refinery, according to a U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office media release.<\/p>\n
In making the threats, Turrella reportedly posed as other real people, and used e-mail addresses that he had opened under the names of those individuals.<\/p>\n
In the e-mails that Turrella transmitted to Boeing, he stated variously that he was going to bring a gun into a Boeing facility and \u201cshoot ever [sic] employee I see,\u201d and also that he would \u201cstrap himself with explosives and detonate\u201d if and when he was apprehended, in order to cause \u201cmaximum death and destruction in the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Members of the FBI, Auburn Police and Pierce County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigated the case. Investigators arrested Turrella Aug. 26 in the parking lot of a store in Tukwila.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement officers recovered more than 100 firearms during a search of Turrella\u2019s home. Turrella remained in federal custody as of Thursday.<\/p>\n
The crime of threat by instrument of interstate commerce (Internet threats) is punishable by up to 10 years in prison; the crime of identity theft is punishable by up to five years in prison. Conviction of either also can result in up to three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a 46-year-old Des Moines man on 16 counts of Internet threats of violence and identity theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}