A Texas man charged with making on-line threats towards U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers and Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem was ordered by a choose on Wednesday to stay in jail.
Robert King, 35, who was charged with transmitting interstate threats in federal court docket on Monday, was ordered to remain in detention by U.S. Justice of the Peace Choose Renee Toliver after a listening to in Dallas on Wednesday afternoon, Fox Information confirmed.
Toliver stated King is a flight threat and a threat to the group, which solidified her ruling, regardless of his lawyer arguing that he had no prior fees, no weapons and had been looking for remedy for psychological well being points, together with despair and suicidal ideas.
King was upset by the ruling and was seen crying as he left the courtroom.
A choose ordered Robert King, 35, of Texas, to stay locked up on fees of transmitting interstate threats throughout a detention listening to in Dallas on Wednesday. (Division of Homeland Safety)
King was arrested in McKinney, Texas, on March 29 after he allegedly posted threats on Fb in direction of ICE brokers and Noem.
Within the first submit, King shared a PBS NewsHour article and wrote: “I really hope, and I imply this with all my coronary heart, that Kristi Noem meets a horrible and agonizing demise I hope she is tried in a conflict felony court docket with the remainder of the Nazis when that is throughout and I hope she is ripped aside in a gulag. Nothing much less for a Nazi scum. That is America now a Nazi fascist state. Disgusting.”
He then threatened to kill ICE brokers in a second submit, the place he described them as “a secret police pressure with no actual authorized authority,” including that he’s “opening hearth” on them if he sees brokers in his neighborhood. A couple of days later, he doubled down on the risk.
Robert King allegedly wrote on Fb that he hopes Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem “meets a horrible and agonizing demise.” (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
“Simply wanna double down on what I stated the opposite day: if ICE involves your neighborhood, f****** shoot them and kill them. No mercy for the Gestapo,” King wrote, in accordance with federal prosecutors.
Throughout his Wednesday listening to, a authorities lawyer stated King’s social media threats got here to mild by the nationwide FBI tip line.
King was additionally dwelling along with his sister and brother-in-law, who’s at present a police officer and a former Customs and Border Safety agent, when he allegedly made the threats, which resulted in him being thrown out of the home.
King was dwelling along with his sister and brother-in-law, who’s at present a police officer and was previously a Customs and Border Safety agent, when he allegedly threatened ICE brokers and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. (Kevin Carter/Getty Photographs)
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King will stay in Kaufman County detention, although his lawyer needs to switch him elsewhere so he has entry to psychological well being and different medicines.
Fox Information Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
