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WTVJ-TV reported on May 22 that 45-year-old Matthew Moulton of Walla Walla, Washington, was placed under arrest after he sent Volusia County, Florida, Sheriff Mike Chitwood an email on March 20 in which he allegedly stated, “I’m going to have to threaten you with death. It’s coming. There’s nothing you can do to stop it.”
Police went to Moulton’s home that day where he told them he “believed the threats to be satirical and artistic and designed within the parameters of the First Amendment.”
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According to WTVJ’s report, police believed probable cause existed to arrest Moulton for the email, charging him with a felony for written or electronic threats to kill or do bodily injury.
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