A Millis man with a historical past of constructing threatening telephones calls pleaded responsible right now to federal prices associated to calls he made on Jan. 25 threatening to homicide members of synagogues in Attleboro and Sharon and their kids.
Boston federal Choose Julia Kobick set a sentencing date of Aug. 14 for John Reardon, 59, on prices of obstruction of free train of spiritual beliefs by menace of power, transmitting in interstate commerce a menace to injure an individual and stalking utilizing a facility of interstate commerce.
Reardon was arrested simply 4 days after making the calls, as a result of he did nothing to cover his telephone quantity when making the calls.
Reardon doubtlessly faces as much as 30 years in jail on the three prices. Nevertheless, in a plea deal, federal prosecutors agreed to hunt not more than 30 months in jail and 36 months on probation – though Kobick can disregard that advice.
The plea deal additionally hinges on the Suffolk County District Legal professional’s workplace agreeing to drop a separate set of prices, for which he was arraigned in August in Boston Municipal Courtroom, associated to 98 telephone calls to the Israeli consulate in Park Sq. between October and the day he was arrested for the temple calls.
The Suffolk prices mirror the federal ones: Making a menace to commit against the law, committing a civil-rights violation and legal harassment, courtroom information present. As of tonight, courtroom information nonetheless present that case as lively, with a listening to scheduled for Dec. 10 on pre-trial proof assortment and jury choice.
Based on federal prosecutors and an affidavit by an FBI agent on the case, Reardon left a voice mail at Congregation Agudas Achim round 8:45 a.m. that blamed its members for occasions in Gaza and mentioned their lives and their kids’s lives have been now forfeit.
Guess what? We’re going to use your logic – in the event you can kill the Palestinians, we will kill you. … For those who can bomb their f**king locations of worship we will bomb yours, in the event you can kill their kids we will kill yours. … You individuals have to cease the f**king genocide. … Finish the genocide, or it’s time to finish Israel and all of the Jews. … I supported Jewish individuals although. Not anymore. A matter of truth I believe we must always kill you(s) all. … Have a awful day and oh do not be stunned if there’s pig blood in your steps tomorrow.
He then known as one other congregation in Sharon, whose names prosecutors didn’t launch publicly, and left an identical voice message.
The affidavit continued:
I’m conscious that REARDON is alleged to have beforehand made threats on no less than two prior events, and thus he was conscious of the implications of constructing threats to hurt individuals. Particularly, in 2022, REARDON was investigated for leaving a threatening voicemail at a faculty for Ok-12 college students in Framingham, Massachusetts. He was additionally charged for making violent threats to workers at an area financial institution in 2020.
Initially held after his arrest, Reardon was launched on bail on the federal prices in February, on circumstances that he enroll in a mental-health program, that he don’t have any contact in any respect, whether or not in individual, by telephone or on social media with any Jewish group or its members and that he comply with have software program put in on his telephone and laptop that may alert federal probation officers to any try at “viewing, downloading, importing, transmitting or in any other case utilizing any photographs or content material regarding the Jewish religion or Jewis institutions or in any other case inappropriate nature.”
