Anchorage man threatened US Supreme Court justices, indictment says

The U.S. Supreme Court (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)

An Anchorage man is jailed connected charges that he threatened to wounded and termination U.S. Supreme Court justices and their family members.

Federal authorities arrested Panos Anastasiou, 76, aft a expansive assemblage handed up a 22-count indictment Wednesday, according to nan Alaska U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Anastasiou allegedly sent much than 465 threatening messages to six Supreme Court justices done an online portal from March 2023 to July 2024. The messages were violent, racist and homophobic and included threats of torture and hanging, according to nan indictment.

Anastasiou allegedly encouraged others to participate successful nan violence. In a connection successful May, he wrote to 2 justices threatening to nonstop chap veterans to “spray” their homes pinch bullets “hopefully killing” them, nan indictment says.

According to a Wednesday tribunal filing supporting prosecutors’ assertion that Anastasiou should beryllium jailed pending trial, FBI agents contacted him successful nan outpouring of 2023 to talk astir nan messages he had sent up to that point.

But nan messages continued and became much violent, according to nan memorandum successful support of detention.

Neither nan indictment aliases nan memorandum includes nan names of nan six justices Anastasiou was alleged to person threatened, but they look to beryllium nan Supreme Court’s 6-3 mostly of blimpish justices, including Justice Clarence Thomas.

One connection included successful nan memo threatens nan assassination of a erstwhile president referred to arsenic a “convicted criminal,” apt Donald Trump.

Anastasiou pleaded not blameworthy Wednesday. A judge agreed pinch prosecutors and ordered that he beryllium detained.