Troy man gets 18-month sentence for emailed threats to North Carolina Jewish organization in 2023

GREENSBORO, N.C. ( QUEEN CITY NEWS ) — A 64-year-old Troy man received an 18-month sentence for his role in a 2023 email threat to a Charlotte Jewish organization on Wednesday.

Jeffrey Scott Hobgood must also serve a 3-year term of supervised release and 20 hours of community service weekly for twelve weeks. He pled guilty to communicating threats in interstate commerce on Jan. 3.

On Oct. 11, 2023 , Hobgood sent a threatening email to a Jewish organization located in Charlotte, North Carolina, addressing the recipients as “Israeli jews of David star,” and threatening to “take every one of you out,” writing that “you semite [sic] pieces of s- will be annihilated.” Two days later, the man sent a second threatening email to the same organization, again referencing the religion of the recipients.

In his plea agreement, the man admitted targeting the victims over religion.

The FBI’s civil rights and public corruption squad, the Troy Police Department, and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department worked on the investigation.

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