FILE - The FBI seal is pictured in Omaha, Neb., Aug. 10, 2022. A Utah man has been charged with threatening a Palestinian rights organization in Washington. The case was unsealed Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, as tensions rise in the U.S. from the devastating war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
FILE - The FBI seal is pictured in Omaha, Neb., Aug. 10, 2022. A Utah man has been charged with threatening a Palestinian rights organization in Washington. The case was unsealed Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, as tensions rise in the U.S. from the devastating war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
CENWASHINGTON (AP) — A Utah man has been charged with threatening a Palestinian rights organization in Washington in a case that was unsealed Monday as tensions rise in the U.S. from the devastating war between Israel and Hamas.
Kevin Brent Buchanan, 62, of Tooele, Utah, called the unidentified group at least five times in three days and left profanity-laced messages such as “You're the enemy,” “you’re being tracked” and “dead person walking," prosecutors wrote in court documents.
The organization reported the messages with the help of another anti-discrimination group. FBI agents tracked the phone number to Tooele, located about 34 miles or 55 kilometers west of Salt Lake City, and linked him to the phone through purchase records, prosecutors said. No attorney was immediately listed for Buchanan.
His wife, Stefanie Buchanan, told The Associated Press he found news about the war upsetting, but the allegations against him came as a shock. Kevin Buchanan had been working long hours with little sleep while acting as her caretaker shortly before his arrest, she said.
The threats began Oct. 31 and continued through Nov. 2, two days before the group had a public demonstration planned. Buchanan was charged with making an interstate threat, which is punishable by a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Threats against Jewish, Muslim, and Arab American communities in the U.S. have increased since the war began with an attack by Hamas in early October. FBI Director Christopher Wray on Oct. 31 that law enforcement is increasingly concerned about the potential of attacks by individuals or small groups.
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