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Army Veteran Indicted for Mailing Threats to Veterans Affairs

By Tom Marino | May 17, 2022
Last Updated: May 17, 2022

BOSTON – The U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Massachusetts announced on Friday, May 13, that a federal grand jury has handed down an indictment of a veteran of the United States Army on charges related to sending threatening statements to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Drummond Neil Smithson, 30, faces a charge of use of interstate communications to transmit a threat to injure.

According to federal prosecutors in Massachusetts, Smithson sent mail from Ayer, MA, to the Department of Veterans Affairs which said, in part, “If you take my pension there is going to be retaliation,” and, “You take my pension and the second I get out of prison I will go to a Moms Demand Action meeting […] Try me.”

Moms Demand Action describes itself as “a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures that can protect people from gun violence.”

The charge of use of interstate communications to transmit a threat to injure provides for a sentence of up to five years in prison, up to three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.

 

Image Credit:“Department of Veterans Affairs (2010)” by StreetsofWashington is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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