俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨市——一名弗吉尼亚男子被指控对塔尔萨市市长进行网络跟踪,试图阻止总统的努力失败了唐纳德·特朗普上个月美国在那里的竞选集会。
弗吉尼亚州诺福克的亚当·马克斯韦尔·唐恩(Adam Maxwell Donn)给塔尔萨市市长拜纳姆(G.T .拜纳姆)和他的妻子发了电子邮件和语音邮件,他在邮件中骚扰、威胁并试图恐吓拜纳姆取消特朗普6月20日的集会,检方在周五从弗吉尼亚州东区启封的联邦法院文件中称。
唐恩的律师杰弗瑞·史瓦兹没有立即回复周六寻求置评的电话。
美国律师特伦特·肖尔斯在一份声明中称,在6月11日至22日期间,唐恩威胁要去拜纳姆的家、教堂和妻子的办公室,并在社交媒体上公布市长子女的手机号码。
当局还指控唐恩假扮成拜纳姆的妻子,并通过她的商业账户向她的同事发送威胁邮件。
Shores说这些电子邮件追踪到了唐恩的账户。
他补充说:“网络跟踪者试图躲在键盘后面,同时威胁和恐吓他人,但他们的网上行动有现实世界的影响。”
肖尔斯说,唐恩在弗吉尼亚州被捕,并于周五首次出庭,计划于7月22日在塔尔萨再次出庭。
总统的集会吸引了大约6200人来到塔尔萨有19000个座位的博克中心,远远低于预期的满座人数。
塔尔萨卫生主管布鲁斯·达特公开要求推迟集会,而拜纳姆在特朗普抵达塔尔萨机场时也加入了欢迎他的行列,他说他不会出席。
拜纳姆的女发言人米歇尔布鲁克斯周六告诉美联社,他没有参加特朗普的集会。
该市和塔尔萨县的冠状病毒病例在集会后的几周内激增,达特说这一事件“很可能”是病例增加的原因。
Charges: Virginia man stalked Tulsa mayor over Trump rally
TULSA, Okla. -- A Virginia man has been charged with cyberstalking the mayor of Tulsa in a failed effort to stop PresidentDonald Trump's campaign rally there last month.
Adam Maxwell Donn, of Norfolk, Virginia, sent emails and left voicemails for Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and his wife in which he harassed, threatened and tried to intimidate Bynum into cancelling the June 20 rally by Trump, prosecutors allege in federal court documents unsealed Friday from the Eastern District of Virginia.
Donn’s attorney, Jeffery Swartz, did not immediately reply to a Saturday phone message seeking comment.
Between June 11-22, Donn threatened to go to Bynum’s home, church and his wife’s office in addition to publishing the mayor's children’s cellphone numbers on social media, U.S. Attorney Trent Shores said in a statement.
Authorities also allege Donn masqueraded as Bynum's wife and sent threatening emails through her business account to her colleagues.
Shores said the emails were traced to Donn's account.
“Cyberstalkers try to hide behind keyboards while they threaten and intimidate others, but their online actions have real world effects," he added.
Donn was arrested in Virginia and made his first court appearance there on Friday with a second appearance in Tulsa scheduled for July 22, Shores said.
The president's rally drew an estimated 6,200 people to Tulsa's 19,000-seat BOK Center, far short of the full house that was predicted.
Tulsa health director Bruce Dart publicly asked that the rally be postponed and Bynum, who joined in greeting Trump when he arrived at the Tulsa airport, said he would not attend.
Bynum's spokeswoman Michelle Brooks on Saturday told The Associated Press that he did not attend the Trump rally.
Coronavirus cases in the city and Tulsa County spiked in the weeks following the rally and Dart said the event “likely” was the source of the increase.