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Date: 03-15-2020
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Case Number: 4:19-cr-00188-ALM-CAN
Judge: Amos Mazzant
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Colin County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: Ernest Gonzalez
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Description: Plano, TX - The United States of America charged Rahul Ramesh Joshi with sending threatening communications in interstate commerce.
A 23-year-old Richardson, Texas man has been sentenced to prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas.
Rahul Ramesh Joshi pleaded guilty on Oct. 3, 2019 to sending threatening communications to injure another, in interstate commerce, and was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant on March 6, 2020.
According to information presented in court, in December 2018, a federal law enforcement agent began investigating a complaint from a female Snapchat user. She allegedly received threatening messages on different messaging apps from several different users that all seemed to be connected. Further investigation revealed at least four confirmed victims in different states all receiving similar threatening messages. Joshi had lived in Michigan before attending the University of Texas and eventually moving to Richardson, Texas.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Field Office, University of Pittsburgh Police Department, University of Texas Police Department, and Wellesley Police Department in Massachusetts.
SENDING THREATENING COMMUNICATIONS TO INJURE ANOTHER, INTERSTATE OR FOREIGN COMMERCE
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Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 48 months imprisonment, fine waived, special assessment of $100 and supervised release for a term of 3 years.
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