US man sentenced to nearly 10 years for antisemitic threats against Congressman Fine — Jerusalem Post
In the United States, 26-year-old Massachusetts resident Edwin Guerrero was sentenced to nine years and 11 months in prison for antisemitic threats against Congressman Randy Fine and his two minor sons. The court also ordered Guerrero to pay a $15,000 fine.
As The Jerusalem Post reports, in March Guerrero pleaded guilty to making threats to injure another person through interstate communications. The sentence was announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.
Threats on social media
According to court documents, from August 10 to 15, 2024, Guerrero posted a series of antisemitic posts and threats against Fine on social media. At the time, Fine was a member of the Florida House of Representatives.
The threats targeted the politician and his two sons. In one message sent from an IP address in Spain, Guerrero wrote that he was heading to Brevard County and added an image of a person who appeared to be holding a firearm. Other posts contained violent threats and references to Fine’s children being Jewish. Some of them were accompanied by an image of a dead man with severe head injuries.
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Court findings
Investigators established that Guerrero was in Spain when he sent the threats. After returning to the United States, he admitted in a conversation with law enforcement officers that he had used his own social media account to send the messages.
During a search of Guerrero’s phone, investigators also found a search history for antisemitic and anti-Israel content. U.S. District Judge Anne-Lee Gaylord Moe found that the threats against Fine and his children were motivated by hatred. She stressed the seriousness of threats against Jews and the need to deter threats against elected officials and members of protected groups.
Fine told the court that the threats against his children made him fear for himself and his sons. According to him, on August 14, 2024, his son David returned home after his first day of middle school and saw police officers who had arrived to protect him. The FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigated the case.
