Acting United States
Attorney William J. Edwards (Northern District of Ohio) announced that
David A. Tuason, of Pepper Pike, Ohio was sentenced today on two counts
of transmitting threatening interstate communications and six counts
of mailing threatening communications. The Court sentenced Tuason to
46 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release.
The Court also ordered that Tuason’s mail and emails are
subject to monitoring. Tuason’s sentence follows his April 2008 guilty
pleas to two counts of transmitting threatening interstate communications,
18 U.S.C. § 875(c), and six counts of mailing threatening communications
18 U.S.C. § 876©.
Tuason engaged in
an elaborate scheme of sending racially motivated threatening communications
via the United States Postal Service and electronic mail intended to
threaten and intimidate with bodily injury African-American males known
to affiliate with white females. Tuason threatened an Associate Justice
of the United States Supreme Court, athletes, and entertainers as well
as children of mixed racial parents. Tuason’s threatening
communications were sent to victims across the United States as well as
locally in the Cleveland, Ohio area and at times threats were made to blow
up the facility or building in which the targeted victim was located.
The investigation was conducted by the Cleveland Division of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, as well as the Office of the United States Attorney
for the Northern District of Ohio and the Civil Rights Division of the Department
of Justice in Washington, D.C. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant
United State Attorney Dean M. Valore.
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