MIAMI \u2013 A Miami man pleaded guilty on Oct. 2 to making online threats against a U.S. Senator.<\/p>\n
According to court documents,\u00a0on June 9, Walter George Bechtel,\u00a0III, 39, used an X (formerly Twitter) account to post a threatening message directed at a U.S. Senator. The post stated, in part:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou used to hate millionaires when you first started and then began to hate billionaires once you yourself became a millionaire through shady backroom deals. I will kill you personally old man.\u00a0(Smiling Halo Emoji)\u201d<\/p>\n
When confronted by law enforcement, Bechtel admitted to sending the communication and reaffirmed his desire to harm the Senator.<\/p>\n
Bechtel pleaded guilty to the interstate transmission of threatening communications. A sentencing hearing is set for Dec. 18. Bechtel faces up to 5 years in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.<\/p>\n
U.S. Attorney\u00a0Jason A. Reding Qui\u00f1ones for the Southern District of Florida and Chief Michael G. Sullivan of the U.S. Capitol Police made the announcement. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The U.S. Capitol Police Threat Assessment Section is investigating the case.<\/p>\n
Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Anton is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n
You may find a copy of this press release (and any updates) on the website of the United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of Florida at\u00a0www.justice.gov\/usao-sdfl<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at\u00a0www.flsd.uscourts.gov<\/a>\u00a0 or at\u00a0http:\/\/pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov<\/a>, under case number 25-cr-20327.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2013 A Miami man pleaded guilty on Oct. 2 to making online threats against a U.S. Senator.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-63528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63528","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=63528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}