The US District Court for the District of Alaska indicted Alaska resident Panos Anastasiou on Wednesday over allegations of sending deadly threats to US Supreme Court justices and their relatives.

The indictment alleged that Anastasiou sent threats to Supreme Court justices from January 4, 2024, to July 11, 2024, by internet messages through the court’s publicly accessible website. The messages included threats to “assault, kidnap, and murder” six Justices. The indictment also alleged the messages to contain “violent, racist, and homophobic rhetoric coupled with threats of assassination via torture, hanging, and firearms, and encouraged others to participate in the acts of violence.” Some of the threats towards the Justices and their relatives allegedly also included murder by drowning, strangulation, beheading, and sending “fellow veterans” to shoot some of their homes.

The indictment alleged felonies of nine counts of threats against a federal judge and 13 counts of threats in interstate commerce altogether. If convicted on all counts, Anastasiou faces nine maximum sentences of ten years imprisonment with a $250,000 fine and thirteen maximum sentences of five years imprisonment with a $250,000 fine.

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland commented in an Office of Public Affairs press release, “Our justice system depends on the ability of judges to make their decisions based on the law, and not on fear. Our democracy depends on the ability of public officials to do their jobs without fearing for their lives or the safety of their families.”