NEWS RELEASE
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
Julia C. Dudley United States Attorney Brian McGinn Public Affairs Specialist |
BB&T Building 310 1st Street, S.W., Room 906 Roanoke, Virginia 24011 (540) 857-2974 FAX (540) 857-2179 |
June 11, 2009
ROANOKE MAN INDICTED FOR SENDING THREAT
Jeffrey Lynn Weaver Is Charged with Threatening to Kill a San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Officer
United States Attorney Julia C. Dudley announced today that Jeffrey Lynn Weaver, age 47, of Roanoke, Virginia, was indicted by a federal Grand Jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke on charges he threatened to kill a San Francisco police officer.
Weaver, who lived in the Bay Area of California for several years before moving back to Roanoke in approximately 2002, was arrested on a criminal complaint June 1, 2009. At a detention hearing last week, the defendant was denied bail and ordered to remain in federal custody pending trial.
Earlier today, the grand jury charged Weaver with one count of transmitting in interstate commerce a communication containing a threat to injure a San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer. The defendant posted the threat on the internet site “infowars.com.”
In the communication, which can be viewed in the attached indictment, Weaver threatens the life of the police officer, his wife and his child.
“...now that I know who he is and where he is its only a matter of time and his punishment will be to watch his B---- and his baby get wasted in front of him and then he joins the B---- and the baby in hell when I finish the job by wasting his Pigs— ass,” Weaver wrote in the post.
If convicted on all counts, the maximum penalty faced by the defendant is 5 years imprisonment and/or a fine of $250,000.
The investigation of the case was conducted by Federal Bureau of Investigation both in San Francisco and Roanoke. United States Attorney Julia C. Dudley is prosecuting the case for the United States.
A Grand Jury indictment is only a charge and not evidence of guilt. The defendant is entitled to a fair trial with the burden on the government to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.