CONCORD, N.H. — A decide on Thursday launched from jail a New Hampshire man accused of sending textual content messages threatening to kill a presidential candidate.
Tyler Anderson, 30, of Dover, was arrested Saturday and charged with sending a risk utilizing interstate commerce. He waived his proper to a preliminary listening to Thursday.
A federal prosecutor argued to maintain Anderson in detention pending his trial, saying “very violent, concerning language” was used. But each the prosecution and protection legal professionals mentioned Anderson acknowledged that he had no intent to comply with via on his texts.
Anderson additionally has no legal file.
The decide set forth a number of situations for his launch, together with that he keep away from contact with any presidential candidate and their political campaigns. Anderson, who’s receiving psychological well being remedy, should additionally take all of his prescribed medicines. Guns in his residence, belonging to a roommate, have to be eliminated.
The U.S. Attorney’s workplace didn’t identify the candidate. However, a spokesperson for Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy mentioned Monday that the texts have been directed at his marketing campaign.
According to courtroom paperwork, Anderson obtained a textual content message from the candidate’s marketing campaign notifying him of a breakfast occasion in Portsmouth on Monday. The marketing campaign employees obtained two textual content messages in response, in keeping with an FBI agent affidavit. One threatened to shoot the candidate within the head, the opposite threatened to kill everybody on the occasion and desecrate their corpses.
