Massachusetts man faces 20 years in prison for violent threat filed to Social Security Administration
A Windsor man faces up to years in prison after pleading guilty to violent threats against a curative facility in Springfield They re gonna get what s coming soon years later I m still in pain You re next Now refusing to release clinical records Will be there in the morning to get them myself one way or another Michael Andrew Rodgers wrote in an April publicly viewable Google review of the unnamed healthcare practice in Springfield Along with the text he posted an image of a hand holding a gun The threats escalated in a lengthy fraud document tip he submitted on the curative facility to the Social Protection Administration s Office of the Inspector General website I m gonna start taking what I need By any means nessacary sic the submission read in part according to court documents Majority of of the rest was written in all-capital letters GIVE ME MY MONEY OR IM GONNA START DROPPING PEOPLE YOULL NEVER FIND MY WEAPONS SO STOP LOOKING AND GIVE ME MY CHECK NEXT TIME I SLICE SOMETHING OPEN IT WONT BE ME ITLL BE ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN ILL MERC A WHOLE SCHOOL AND NOT GIVE A expletive the submission concluded SO YOULL BE MY FIRST TARGET IF YOU KEEP REFUSING TO HELP ME Rodgers was arrested and charged in September He pleaded guilty in federal court in Springfield late last month to one count of threatening interstate communications and one count of extortionate interstate communications The threat charge carries a maximum of five years in prison whereas the extortionate threat charge carries a maximum of years in prison U S District Court Judge Mark G Mastroianni scheduled sentencing for Feb Situation summary BPD reports that its officers responded to incidents in its -hour analysis ending at a m Friday That includes two robberies six aggravated assaults one residential burglary three thefts from a bus four stolen motor vehicles and instances of miscellaneous larceny Arrests All of the below-named defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty Derek Butler Atwood St Mansfield Possession with intent to distribute Class A drugs Tiffany Hill Highland Ave Somerville Shoplifting by asportation Tyrone Wilson Dale St Dorchester Trafficking in grams or more of cocaine Steven Narkum Roosevelt St Revere Possession of Class C drugs Davin Figueroa Bellevue St Boston Unlicensed operation of a motor motorcycle Pre onah Dawn Marie St Dorchester Operation of an uninsured motor motorcycle Kayode Awoyemi Alwin St Hyde Park Credit card fraud over Bryan Fitzgerald Jr no address listed Use of a motor automobile without authority Lyla Jutras no address listed Use of a motor bicycle without authority Kenneth Newman Seaver St Roxbury Assault and battery with a dangerous weapon Lamar Dowman Norwest Drive Norwood Operation of an uninsured motor van Rodney Frederick Norton St Dorchester Firearm violation with three prior violent or drug crimes