{"id":440028,"date":"2026-10-28T02:50:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/440028\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T02:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:50:57","slug":"tampa-man-pleads-guilty-to-threatening-congressmember-wife-of-federal-official-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/440028\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa man pleads guilty to threatening congressmember, wife of federal official: DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A Tampa man pleaded guilty to threatening to injure and kill a U.S. Congressmember as well as a federal official and his wife, according to the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe of the Middle District of Florida announced on Tuesday that 35-year-old Robert Logan Shoecraft had reached a plea agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Middle District U.S. Attorney reported that in May of 2024, Shoecraft called the office of a member of the United States House of Representatives and left, what they called, an &#8220;offensive, threatening, expletive-laden voicemail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the voicemail Shoecraft allegedly told the congressmember, &#8220;We&#8217;re coming for you, we&#8217;re going to f***ing kill you,&#8221; and &#8220;we have f***ing guns too, you stupid c***.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Oct. 31, 2025, DOJ said that Shoecraft sent a direct message through social media to the wife of a federal official who serves as an adviser to the President.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the message, Shoecraft allegedly told her, &#8220;You and your husband will be dragged through the streets like Mussolini and his b**** after all this is done. This is our country, and they will make sure you and your husband suffer for what you&#8217;ve done. You have no idea what&#8217;s in store for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shoecraft faces up to 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A Tampa man pleaded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-440028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}