Overview
- Court records say 35‑year‑old Joseph Roy Ozment left an explicit voicemail threatening to stab staff and demanding officials “unlock my anime,” and he was arrested on a third‑degree felony terroristic‑threat charge after the July 25 call.
- The voicemail was forwarded to the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Executive Protection Bureau, which used analytical tools and an emergency location ping that placed the phone in Cypress while tracing the call to Ozment.
- Ozment posted a $5,000 bond and was released under court conditions that require a mental‑health evaluation, bar him from possessing firearms, and order him to stay away from the State Capitol Complex and the Governor’s Office.
- Ozment told a local station he had a mental breakdown and does not recall leaving the message, and prosecutors say the threat was meant to put government staff in fear or pressure a change in law.
- Reporting notes that Texas has tightened age verification for some online content and passed a 2025 law criminalizing certain obscene visual material including some animations, though the affidavit does not identify which anime or website was involved and Texas has not banned anime more broadly.