A 21-year-old Miami resident has pleaded responsible to a felony cost after utilizing social media to concern violent threats towards a New Jersey highschool’s junior promenade, federal prosecutors introduced this week.
Onil Compres Rodriguez admitted in court docket that on April 30, 2024, he despatched a collection of chilling direct messages to numerous social media accounts, together with ones related to colleges in New Jersey. The messages contained specific threats of violence and referenced a deliberate assault on the faculty’s junior promenade, scheduled for Might 2, 2024.
Among the many statements Compres Rodriguez despatched had been:
“I’ll kill everybody,”
“See you on Might 2 on the junior promenade . . . I can be charged for the harm they did to me,”
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“Put on your bulletproof vests there can be plenty of blood hahaha.”
He additionally shared two disturbing photos: one in all a promenade invitation and one other depicting three firearms with ammunition.
The threats had been promptly reported to legislation enforcement, triggering a multi-agency investigation. Authorities tracked the messages to Compres Rodriguez in Miami and had been alerted that he had booked a flight from Miami Worldwide Airport to Newark, New Jersey—the identical day because the threatened promenade.
When his flight landed in Newark, legislation enforcement brokers had been ready. Compres Rodriguez was taken into custody earlier than he might depart the airport. He by no means made it to the varsity or the occasion.
He pleaded responsible this week in federal court docket to 1 depend of transmitting threats by means of interstate communications, a cost that carries a most sentence of 5 years in jail. His sentencing is scheduled for June 25 earlier than Senior U.S. District Decide Federico Moreno in Miami.
The case was investigated by the FBI’s Miami Discipline Workplace, with help from FBI Newark, the Passaic County Sheriff’s Workplace, and the Clifton Police Division. Assistant U.S. Lawyer Elizabeth Hannah is prosecuting the case.
U.S. Lawyer Hayden P. O’Byrne for the Southern District of Florida and Performing Particular Agent in Cost Brett Skiles of FBI Miami introduced the plea.
