NEW YORK — A western New York man has been charged with threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Federal prosecutors announced Friday that Patrick Carlineo Jr. was arrested after placing a threatening call to Omar’s office in Washington D.C. last month. The FBI said in a criminal complaint Carlineo called her a “terrorist” and threatened to shoot her. The bureau said that Carlineo sounded angry during the call but “spelled his name correctly and provided contact information” to a staffer. Carlineo told the FBI that he is a patriot, “loves the president and that he hates radical Muslims in our government,” the criminal complaint says.

Source: National Post April 06, 2019 01:41 UTC