There’s a brand new improvement within the case of the Tampa dentist who was busted by FBI for being behind a sequence of violent threats. Now, he could also be buying and selling his scrubs for an orange jumpsuit.
Richard Glenn Kantwill pleaded responsible to expenses he was arrested on in June of 2024. The Feds say they tracked him down after discovering he despatched over 100 threatening messages since 2019 from textual content messages to Instagram DMs, per The Tampa Bay Occasions.
“Being the anti-Christ piece of s—t that you’re, we’re going to kill you. Torture first, then loss of life,” he wrote in a message focused at a spiritual chief who he slammed as being a “faux Reverend.” The report says the sufferer put in $4,500 value of surveilance cameras in worry of his security.
“God bless the Nice President Trump and his household. F—okay you and yours. Rent additional safety … you’re gonna want it,” the dentist wrote to a different sufferer.
“Take notice as a result of liberal (expletive) such as you get raped in alleys. You’re our #1 goal, you degenerate (expletive),” he wrote in a single politician’s Fb messages.
Amongst different messages, Kantwill threatened to chop out the guts of a cable information community host’s son and additionally boasted about shopping for “extremely unlawful” firearms, the report says. His spouse testified throughout his plea listening to that he owned 50 firearms within the residence.
In October of 2019, the FBI pulled him in for an interrogation and ordered him to stop his tirade. Through the interview, authorities say he known as himself a “keyboard warrior” however insisted he by no means meant to take motion behind his threats. Investigators additionally stated the dentist additionally blamed “the federal government” and “minorities” for his habits (?????).
Nonetheless, authorities say he continued his tirade for the subsequent few months resulting in his eventual arrest. Upon being charged with 4 counts of interstate transmission of a risk, he pleaded responsible in November. Tuesday, March 4, the dentist pleaded responsible to the fees.
Kantwill was sentenced to 2 years in jail.