Overview
- Federal prosecutors say Ronald Saville, 48, of Honolulu sent emailed threats to Michigan State Police and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in May that named the Michigan State Capitol as a target.
- Prosecutors allege Saville emailed on May 9 that he would enter the Capitol with a weapon and "open fire and kill as many people as possible" and then sent a second threatening message to Whitmer.
- The complaint says Saville called the FBI on May 12 and told an agent he wanted to kill Whitmer because of her political affiliation and had researched traveling to Michigan to carry out the threats.
- Saville was located and arrested in Abilene, Texas on Monday, June 1, made an initial federal court appearance in the Northern District of Texas, and is detained pending transfer to Hawaii.
- He faces federal counts for sending interstate communications containing threats with penalties of up to five years in prison and fines per count, and the FBI is continuing its investigation while courts and prosecutors review his two prior federal threat convictions from 2006 and 2012.