Crime & Safety
Feds Charge Area Man With Making Threats Against President Obama
Federal officials said Coventry resident Joshua Kilmas sent a message to whitehouse.gov with the statement "If you do not resign by the end of the year I will kill you!"
Law enforcement officials have arrested a Coventry man charged with making online threats against President Barack Obama.
Joshua Phillip Klimas, 32, was taken into custody Wednesday on a federal criminal complaint alleging that he sent a message to the website whitehouse.gov that contained several threatening statements against the president and his family, according to a press release from the U.S. Justice Department.
Among the statements in the criminal complaint, officials said Klimas wrote "If you do not resign by the end of the year I will kill you!"
The complaint further alleges that Klimas has also threatened other individuals.
The message was sent to the White House website on June 1, the DOJ said.
Klimas appeared Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Donna F. Martinez in Hartford Federal Court and was ordered to be admitted to a local hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
The U.S. Secret Service, UConn Police Department, and Coventry Police Department all took part in the investigation.
Online court records show Klimas was sentenced in 2006 in Bristol to 10 days in prison for a misdemeanor marijuana possession. Beyond that, he has no further criminal record.
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