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   From: bankrupt@cnn.com   
      
   A Massachusetts man was arrested in New York on Thursday after   
   trying to hire a hit man on Twitter to kill ICE agents for $500   
   and sharing his desire to slit the throat of Sen. John McCain,   
   federal officials said.   
      
   The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts   
   said that Brandon Ziobrowski, 33, from Cambridge, Mass. was   
   charged with one count of use of interstate and foreign commerce   
   to transmit a threat and injure another person for the alleged   
   Twitter posts this year.   
      
   Federal officials said Ziobrowski tweeted a murder for hire   
   solicitation to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents   
   for $500, and repeatedly tweeted his desire to slit the throat   
   of McCain, R-Ariz.   
      
   "The agents and officers out there enforcing federal laws are   
   doing their job, plain and simple," U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling   
   said at a news conference. "There is a difference between public   
   debate and putting others in fear of their lives."   
      
   Federal officials said Ziobrowski in March started tweeting   
   threatening messages against federal agents that work for ICE.   
      
   On July 2, the 33-year-old allegedly tweeted: “I am broke but   
   will scrounge and literally give $500 to anyone who kills ICE   
   agent. @me seriously who else can pledge get in on this lets   
   make this work.”   
      
   Ziobrowski's Twitter handle, @Vine_II, had 448 followers at the   
   time of the tweet.   
      
   FBI Special Agent in Charge Harold Shaw said that Ziobrowski had   
   expressed "extreme anti-U.S." rhetoric on his account, and   
   professed support for "socialist" and "communist" ideology. Four   
   law enforcement officers have been killed across the region in   
   the past year, to which Shaw said “enough is enough.”   
      
   Lelling said the July 2 tweet received two likes, but officials   
   are looking into if anyone reached out to the 33-year-old about   
   the threat.   
      
   "He appears to be very much against ICE and its mission. He   
   appears to have a violent dislike for at least one Republican   
   senator and law enforcement," he told reporters.   
      
   There is a trend "upward" in threats against the lives of law   
   enforcement offices, especially those in charge of enforcing   
   federal immigration laws, according to Lelling, who added there   
   is no indication the 33-year-old was part of any organized group.   
      
   "Feeling strong on this subject is fine. Putting people's lives   
   in danger, not fine," he told reporters.   
      
   Lelling added while we may live in a time of heated political   
   rhetoric, "each of us" are responsible for setting limits on   
   political speech to not put people's lives at risk.   
      
   "People who try to politicize our mission are within the legal   
   right to freedom of speech," Peter Fitzhugh, special agent in   
   charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston, said at   
   Thursday’s press conference. “But when freedom of speech crosses   
   a line into threats or offers to have federal law enforcement   
   officers killed, we will never tolerate that.”   
      
   Ziobrowski faces up to five years in prison if convicted, in   
   addition to three years supervised release and a $250,000 fine.   
      
   Ziobrowski briefly appeared in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y.   
   Thursday afternoon and was ordered released on $50,000 bond. As   
   part of his bail, Ziobrowski was ordered to surrender his   
   passport and refrain from making threats via any medium.   
      
   Ziobrowski's next court appearance is scheduled for Aug. 15 in   
   Massachusetts.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/09/massachusetts-man-solicited-   
   killing-ice-agents-for-500-tweeted-desire-to-slit-throat-mccain-   
   feds-say.html   
      
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