Ex-Georgia poll worker indicted for mailing bomb threat to polling place: FBI

A Georgia canvass idiosyncratic is facing charges for allegedly mailing a weaponry menace to a polling spot up of Election Day.

The FBI alleges that Nicholas Wimbish, 25, mailed the weaponry menace to the Jones County Elections superintendent connected Oct. 17. Investigators besides accidental Wimbish lied to the FBI successful the people of the investigation, according to the indictment.

"Wimbish was serving arsenic a canvass idiosyncratic astatine the Jones County Elections Office connected Oct. 16, erstwhile helium had a verbal altercation with a voter. Later that evening, Wimbish allegedly conducted online probe to find what accusation astir himself would beryllium publically available. The pursuing day, Wimbish allegedly mailed a missive addressed to the Jones County Elections Superintendent, purportedly from a 'Jones County Voter,'" the Justice Department wrote successful a statement.

The Justice Department said Wimbish's missive was allegedly drafted to "make it look arsenic if it came from the voter," including claims specified arsenic "Wimbish had fixed maine hell," and that Wimbish was "distracting voters from concentrating."

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Nicholas Wimbish, 25, is accused of mailing a weaponry menace to a polling spot successful Georgia.

"The missive threatened that Wimbish and others ‘should look implicit their shoulder,’ that 'I cognize wherever they each unrecorded due to the fact that I recovered location voting addresses for each them,'" the DOJ wrote. "Further, the missive allegedly threatened to ‘rage rape’ the ‘ladies’ and warned them to ‘watch each determination they marque and look implicit their shoulder.’"

The missive concluded with a handwritten note, "PS roar artifact successful aboriginal ballot place, cigar burning, beryllium safe," the DOJ said.

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Wimbish was primitively arrested for the incidental connected Nov. 4, and helium made his archetypal tribunal quality connected Nov. 5. 

Wednesday's indictment besides alleges that Wimbish lied to the FBI successful the people of the investigation. Authorities accidental Wimbish denied penning the missive and suggested that the elector had written it instead.

FBI investigators aboriginal discovered a transcript of the missive connected Wimbish's computer.

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Wimbish is charged with mailing a weaponry threat, conveying mendacious accusation astir a weaponry threat, mailing a threatening missive and making mendacious statements to the FBI, according to the DOJ. If convicted, helium faces a maximum punishment of 10 years successful situation connected the mailing a weaponry menace number and 5 years successful situation connected each of the mailing a threatening letter, conveying mendacious accusation and making mendacious statements counts.