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From the Justice Department:
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Maverick Vargo, age 25, of Berwick, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of threatening the President of the United States, interstate communications with a threat, and influencing a federal official by threat.
According to United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam, the indictment alleges that on October 11, 2022, United States Congressman Bennie Thompson’s office received a letter from Vargo at the Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC, containing threats to kill Representative Thompson, his family, President Joseph Biden, and U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani alluding to “Anthrax,” and containing what appeared to be a white powder.
Representative Thompson is serving his fifteenth term as the Congressman representing the second Congressional District in Mississippi. Representative Thompson is the Chairman of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
The letter specifically referenced Congressman Thompson’s role with the January 6 Select Committee and states “Im going to kill you! I will make you feel the rest of our pain & suffering. There is nowhere or nobody who can keep you from me. I am going to kill you & those you love. I promise you that I will keep my promise until the day of my death.” The letter goes on to state, “You & Joe Biden soon will face death for the wrongs you’ve done to US.”
Investigation by the U.S. Capitol Police Hazardous Material Response Team determined that the white powder accompanying the threats did not pose an immediate public safety hazard. It was determined through the investigation that the threatening letter and substance was sent by Vargo from the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
From the July 2022 report on Vargo:
Escaped Luzerne County Correctional Facility inmate Robert Maverick Vargo intended to flee making phone calls to his girlfriend, Amanda Saxer, calling his plan “2.0,” according to court records.
County detectives Charles Casey and Charles Jensen learned after Vargo, 25, took off from an inmate work detail outside the prison’s walls and fences, he called Saxer at the same phone number he used just days before he escaped, court records say.
Acting U.S. Marshal William Pugh in a news release Thursday stated Vargo and Saxer were captured in the Barefoot Landing area near Myrtle Beach, S.C., at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday
The charges could add 25 years to his sentence.
Maverick Vargo, 25, threatened President Biden, Thompson, Thompson’s family, and U.S. District Court Judge Robert Mariani in a letter, also sending what appeared to be a white powder and alluding to anthrax, prosecutors said. https://t.co/xbfAQKltGn
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