A federal grand jury has indicted a Shaler man on charges of threatening to kill a member of Congress.
A 12-count indictment charged Robert Hlovchiec, 32, with interstate threats and influencing, impeding or retaliating against federal officials by threat, U.S. Attorney Troy Rivetti said in a news release Friday.
Hlovchiec is accused of posting violent threats on YouTube videos between February and March.
Officials did not release the Congress member’s name.
Rivetti’s office said Hlovchiec also threatened Democrats, liberals, transgender people and various minority groups, including African Americans, Hispanics and Muslims.
He sometimes identified himself as a Nazi and a white supremacist and wrote about his desire to carry out mass shootings and assassinations or to run over people with his truck, authorities said.
“If i get the chance im going to do a mass shooting wherever (Victim 1) is standing,” Hlovchiec wrote, according to federal prosecutors.
The news release said Victim 1 referred to the Congress member.
“(Victim 1) needs to die. All trailers (sic) to America beware. America is not for sale. America is not a Muslim country,” Hlovchiec wrote, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Federal prosecutors also quoted Hlovchiec as threatening to shoot everyone in the Congress member’s family and to put a bullet in the official’s head.
“I’ll put a bullet in any democrats head especially democrat politician or (Victim 1),” the indictment quoted Hlovchiec as writing.
In February, the federal indictment said, Hlovchiec posted, “I AM A NAZI,” wrote of being a white supremacist for 14 years and referenced plans to kill transgender people.
The indictment also cited online comments threatening mass shootings against “liberals : democrats and Mexicans.”
Hlovchiec is facing six counts of interstate threats — which come with a maximum sentence of up to five years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000 or both — and six counts of influencing, impeding or retaliating against a federal official, which carries a maximum sentence of up to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000 or both.
In May, a Wilkinsburg man was indicted by a federal grand jury after prosecutors said he made violent threats against government officials.
Raymond Eugene Chandler III, 40, was accused of leaving voicemails threatening to kill President Donald Trump and a member of Congress’ daughter.
A month earlier, a Butler man pleaded guilty in federal court after he was accused of threatening to kill the president and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in online posts last year.
Shawn Monper, 33, allegedly made the threatening comments on YouTube, using an account named Mr Satan.