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Macomb County criminal sent hundreds of threatening emails to federal judge – The Oakland Press

Umito October 29, 2024

A Macomb County man with a long list of police contacts is in custody after he was accused of threatening to kill a federal magistrate judge, according to court records released Thursday.

James Nelson Holloway, 33, of Warren, made his initial appearance Thursday afternoon before Magistrate Judge Elizabeth A. Stafford in U.S. District Court in Detroit. The judge ordered Holloway held pending a detention hearing Monday at 1 p.m.

Holloway is accused of threatening the life of an unnamed federal magistrate earlier this week after the judge authorized a search warrant for an investigation involving members of an FBI joint terrorism task force.

He was charged with threatening to injure a federal judge and interstate communication of a threat. If convicted, he could be sentenced to 10 years or more in federal prison. The intended target of the threats is not named and there are at least seven magistrate judges working in the Eastern District of Michigan, which includes federal courthouses in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Flint and Bay City.

Court records did not identify a defense attorney who could comment on Holloway’s behalf.

According to the 23-page filing, the investigation began in September after FBI agents received a tip that he might be violating federal gun laws. The tipster said Holloway purchased $2,000 worth of tactical items on Amazon, including rifle scopes, a tactical vest, night vision optics, a knife holster, a GoPro camera and knee/elbow pads.

The items were sent to a Staples store in Brighton. But because Holloway had been convicted of carrying a concealed weapon after a 2019 incident, he was not legally allowed to possess a firearm.

During the 2019 incident, which took place in the 14700 block of Hannebauer Lane in Sterling Heights, Holloway’s mother called 911 and said her son chased her from their home with a gun. fist before barricading himself inside.

James Holloway is accused of purchasing military-style gear similar to that in this ad on Amazon. (PHOTO — US ATTORNEY’S OFFICE)

“She further stated that Holloway was mentally unstable and had fired a gun in the backyard of the family home,” an FBI special agent wrote in the complaint.

Holloway was ultimately convicted of carrying a concealed weapon, domestic violence and reckless use of firearms in the 2019 incident. He was sentenced to 330 days in jail in Macomb County, with credit for 610 days served, according to Macomb County Circuit Court records.

In the latest investigation, federal agents say they reviewed Holloway’s recent purchases on Amazon. They learned he also purchased a $999 thermal rifle scope, gun optic mounts, wound coagulant and a tactical pouch, according to court documents.

Officers say they followed Holloway’s vehicle to a parking lot in Livonia later that day and questioned him. He was holding what appeared to be a tactical vest and was parked next to a white truck registered to Holloway, according to the government.

Holloway picked up the items from Brighton Staples on September 27. Investigators reviewed surveillance footage from the store and said they saw Holloway with the items in a shopping cart, according to the court filing.

“During the interaction, law enforcement asked Holloway if he knew that some convicted felons could not legally possess firearms, and Holloway stated that it was ‘not the law’ and that it was ‘not true,'” according to the complaint. He said it was his right to possess firearms under the ‘supreme law,'” the FBI agent wrote in court documents.

A few days later, around midnight on October 1, a person wearing black tactical gear, a balaclava, mask and gloves appeared at the front door of Holloway’s parents’ home in Sterling Heights. The person covered the doorbell camera lens with chewing gum, rang the doorbell and called “Mr.” Holloway.

The person appeared to be carrying a GoPro camera and a case – two items Holloway ordered from Amazon.

Investigators said the person had an object hanging on their right side “that appears to be swinging or moving in a manner comparable to a long gun.” Holloway’s parents told them that the “appearance and voice of the person in the video matches Holloway.”

According to the complaint, a review of a license plate reader database revealed that Holloway’s vehicle was in Sterling Heights between 11 p.m. the previous evening and 1 a.m. on October 1. Investigators said that matches the time the visitor rang Holloway’s parents’ doorbell. ‘ House.

FBI agents discovered that Holloway did not have a consistent residence and that the address listed on his driver’s license was a hotel in Warren. He was also known to stay at two hotels in Warren, they added.

On Friday, investigators executed federal search warrants at one of the hotels, his car and the trailer. They also searched Holloway and seized firearm accessories such as the tip, tactical equipment, cell phones, computers and digital storage devices,” the complaint states. However, they did not find any firearms.

FBI agents left copies of the search warrants and related documents with Holloway. The search warrants were signed by two federal magistrate judges, including the lawyer the government says was targeted by Holloway. The district judge is referred to in the unsealed complaint as “district judge A”.

On Tuesday, the FBI learned that two email accounts sent more than 400 emails to the U.S. attorney’s office in Detroit, as well as a second government account in the days following the FBI searches.

One of the threatening emails said: “Yes. I’m going to kill (Magistrate Judge A) in court.

Officers say Holloway was logged into both email addresses. He used one of those addresses when opening a PayPal account earlier this year and a second address was used last weekend to send an email identifying Holloway as the sender, according to court documents.

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