Wilbraham man arrested for threats towards police, personal residents and children

A Wilbraham man has been arrested after making quite a few threats towards police, personal residents and kids, in keeping with an announcement from United States Lawyer Leah B. Foley. 

Funwayo Mbilini Nyawo, also called “Jonathan Funwayo Nyawo,” “Michael Jacobs,” “Robert Jacobs,” and “Carl Fields,” 36, was arrested for allegedly making quite a few violent threats on social media in the direction of officers and their households, personal people, youngsters, and places similar to a mall and an elementary college, in keeping with the assertion.  

Nyawo was arrested Thursday in Florida and charged with one depend of interstate transmission of threatening communications, in keeping with Foley. He was ordered detained till his look in federal court docket in Springfield, which can happen at a later date, in keeping with the assertion.

Officers stated Nyawo allegedly posted varied dangerous, threatening communications on X (previously referred to as Twitter) and Gooogle, which focused each personal and public figures and locations, together with members of the Wilbraham and Miami police departments and their households, Wilbraham Fireplace Division personnel, an elementary college, and others. 

These threats posted on X particularly concerned acts of violence similar to bombing, capturing, or in any other case killing the individuals his posts focused, in keeping with an announcement. 

Officers stated certainly one of his posts from August 2024, learn, “wilbraham and boston:  time in your youngsters to die. […] The Wilbraham Police and Fireplace Division I’m going to kill their households subsequent and make them watch earlier than I kill them.”

He additionally posted a picture of an elementary college in September 2024 with the phrases “Torch it. Kill the children,” in keeping with the assertion. 

Officers stated these threats usually expressed a name to arms for followers of terrorist organizations, similar to his submit from November 2024, which learn, “ISIS: Assault Boston once more.”