Courtesy of the Harris County District Clerk’s Workplace
A Houston man who despatched threats and racist/homophobic messages to Harris County officers, journalists, attorneys and hospitals was sentenced Friday to 16 years in federal jail, based on the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace.
For 2 years, 42-year-old Jeremy James Joseph threatened to “rage gunfire and bombs on Harris County” in emails, sending greater than 100 threatening messages to Kelsey Seybold Clinic workers members alone. He additionally despatched related threats to native universities, judges and councilmembers.
“I’ve purchased a gun, and I’ll use it if I’ve to towards any and each one in all you,” Johnson stated in an electronic mail to a Harris County probate courtroom decide in 2022.
Joseph will serve 16 years in federal jail, adopted by three years of supervised launch. He was indicted on costs of constructing threats and entered a responsible plea on Dec. 13, admitting in a plea listening to to sending threatening emails.
“His conduct breached the security and peace of thoughts important for public servants to hold out their duties successfully,” U.S. Legal professional Alamdar Hamdani stated in a press release.
“My workplace’s dedication to defending public officers from such unparalleled threats ensures the integrity and steady functioning of our justice system, prevents concern and chaos from taking root in its operations and retains Mr. Joseph off the streets for the following 16 years,” Hamdani stated.
Throughout his sentencing, Joseph represented himself and declined to talk on his personal behalf.
In 2022, Joseph threatened to perception gun violence towards a probate decide nearly a yr earlier than his mom disinherited Joseph from her will, based on courtroom paperwork.
“Joseph filed a contest to the need and employed and fired a number of attorneys,” based on courtroom paperwork. “Joseph flooded the courtroom’s digital submitting system with on-line filings and was ultimately banned from submitting pleadings electronically.”
After he was banned, Joseph tried to impersonate the decide by creating an encrypted electronic mail account and threatened to perception violence towards the decide’s workplace.
In 2023, Joseph despatched an electronic mail with the topic line, “I’ve a Gun and Bombs and I’m going to kill you,” to media retailers together with CNN, the Dallas Morning Information, KTRK and different recipients. He threatened to set off pipe bombs and shoot journalists.
That very same yr, Joseph asserted in emails that he lined the perimeter of a Houston Methodist hospital with pipe bombs.
He was sentenced by U.S. District Decide Lee Rosenthal on Friday. He’ll stay in custody pending switch to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility to be decided sooner or later.
