The Justice Department said Friday that a Carmel, Ind., man was arrested and set to appear in court for threatening to kill a Michigan election clerk. Andrew Nichols allegedly left a voicemail accusing the clerk of fraud for saying there were no 2020 election irregularities. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI |
License PhotoAug. 11 (UPI) — A Carmel, Ind., man was arrested and scheduled to go to court Friday for allegedly threatening to kill a Michigan election clerk.
The Justice Department said in a statement that Andrew Nichols threatened the clerk in a voicemail that said in part: “We’re watching your … mouth talk about how you think that there’s no irregularities. … [Y]ou frauded out America of a real election. … Guess what? You’re gonna pay for it. You will pay for it. … [T]en million plus patriots will surround you when you least expect it, and your little infantile deep state security agency has no time to protect you because they’ll be bought out and we’ll [expletive] kill you.”
The DOJ said Nichols is charged with one count of making a threatening interstate communication, facing up to five years in prison if convicted.
The threatening voicemail added: “We will [expletive] take you out. [Expletive] your family, [expletive] your life, and you deserve a [expletive] throat to the knife. … Watch your [expletive] back.”
The FBI Detroit field office investigated the Nichols case.
This case is part of the DOJ’s Election Threats Task Force, which was launched to “address threats of violence against election workers, and to ensure that all election workers — whether elected, appointed, or volunteer — are able to do their jobs free from threats and intimidation.”
Since the 2020 election and the false claims peddled by former President Donald Trump that it was stolen, threats against officials, election workers and law enforcement ramped up.
Nichols’ arrest comes just days after an armed Utah Trump supporter was killed by the FBI as they tried to serve a warrant for threats the man had posted against President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and prosecutors bringing criminal indictments against former president Trump.
In 2022, an armed Trump supporter wearing body armor tried to attack the FBI office in Cincinnati. The man was killed as he fled from that office.
Federal prosecutors said Aug. 15, 2022, that a Pennsylvania man was arrested for making violent threats online targeting the FBI after agents searched Mar-A-Lago on a judge’s warrant in the Trump classified documents criminal case.
