A Massachusetts guy charged with threatening the lifetime of Rep. Randy Nice, a former state consultant for Brevard County, in social media posts is now dealing with federal fees.
Edwin Guerrero‘s plea listening to scheduled on the Viera Justice Heart for Tuesday, April 21 will probably be endured as Guerrero is in federal custody in any other county on doubtlessly overlapping fees, consistent with the State Legal professional’s Place of job.
The feds in October charged Guerrero with two counts the usage of interstate communique to factor a danger.
On account of the brand new federal fees, Guerrero’s staff is operating to scale back the choice of native fees in opposition to him, claiming that the “federal prosecution for a similar digital threats quantities to double jeopardy,” consistent with 18th District spokesman Matt Reed. He added that the State Legal professional has now not conceded that and a call must be made at a later date.
Guerrero, 25, faces 8 criminal fees and as much as 175 years in jail for the usage of the social media platform X (previously Twitter) to threaten the lifetime of Nice with anti-Semitic language. He was once arrested in August of 2024.
Nice now represents Florida’s sixth District within the U.S. Area of Representatives,
In keeping with Florida Division of Legislation Enforcement (FDLE) paperwork, Guerrero was once detained via the U.S. Division of Native land Safety at Logan Global Airport after he returned from a commute to Spain. FDLE brokers have been dispatched and taken him to Brevard. Brokers mentioned Guerrero admitted to creating the threats, pronouncing he had long past too a long way and simplest sought after to anger Nice.
A prior plea deal presented to Guerrero triggered outrage from Randy Nice who identified that the defendant would have served simply 2-1/2 years in alternate for a to blame plea.
The State Legal professional’s Place of job does now not have a plea settlement with the defendant, consistent with the Reed.
“Guerrero plans to plea to the open courtroom, which means he’ll exchange his plea to no contest or to blame and depart it to the pass judgement on to make a decision his sentence,” Reed mentioned
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