A Missouri man threatened to bomb a San Luis Obispo, California, class and kill at least 400 people, including a local elected official he was targeting in a retaliation story, a federal indictment said.
The prosecution, filed on Tuesday, stated David William Platek, 41, of Springfield, Missouri, texted many” real risks” to someone in December with the intent to harm an elected official in San Luis Obispo County.
At this time, it’s not known who the elected standard is.
Platek was arrested on Jan. 24 and is , in national custody , at Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, according to national court records.
But Platek was previously , charged with criminal identification theft , in 2019. Those fees, which were filed by the SLO County District Attorney’s Office, were later dismissed for pursuit of fairness, meaning a judge found that there was fair ground to ignore the cost.
In the current accusation, Platek was charged with threats by federal conversation, court documents said.
According to the prosecution, Platek’s communications began on Dec. 9 and include a number of cold and harsh challenges, including killing the elected official. Platinek is accused of having texted an elected official straight on social media and also texted a second unidentified recipient.
” I’ve got the weapons. I just need to hire a ute and travel to California. He took all from me, and I want to get it from him”, Platek wrote in a Dec. 9 words information, according to the indictment.
” I immediately comprehend the thoughts of the worst people: They enter those institutions because they are aware that it will permanently damage people. It’s making way to ( sic ) much sense to me. He allegedly wrote in another message that it would be more appropriate to leave ( a SLO County official ) and the people responsible alive in the aftermath to explain what happened.
On Dec. 11, Platek changed the profile picture on one of his social media accounts to a Nintendo Luigi personality, what the accusation says was a research to , Luigi Mangione, the alleged criminal of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
According to the indictment, Platek reposted a post from the elected official’s profile in hopes that the elected official’s “heart may skip a beat when he sees this” and that” no one is ever going to see this except ( the SLO County official )”.
Platek texted the other unidentified user to inform them that his status change and share was” the most delicate sports suicide risk one could ever hope to create.” This information is meant to be relayed by just one person.
According to many emails on Dec. 16, Platek wrote,” I’d rather be remembered as a criminal” and” My punishment will wound past books”.
He added that he would allow the elected official’s youngsters to reside.
According to the indictment, Platek said in a text that” I’d wait for a sick day, let them live with the guilt of watching their classmates die because their father is corrupt ( sic ).”
” I haven’t yet shoot myself”, he wrote in another text. ” I’d like the test. I am the monster ( a SLO County official ), and the broken justice system forced me. You let it all happen, you all paid the price. Bullets are low and kids are plentiful”.
Then he went on to aspect a scheme to bomb a nearby university.
” ( San Luis Obispo ) wants to destroy my life, I’ll blow up one of their schools”, he said in another message. Two weeks before his second action, a huge explosion shooting 400, mostly children, in San Luis Obispo, David Platek killed a SLO County national in” the second political death of 2024.”
According to the indictment, he claimed he would obtain employment that would allow him to use potassium nitrate from a nearby plantation. Potassium salt is , used to create explosives , and nutrients, according to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.
” I hear dying children unhappy parents a lot”, he wrote in another text. On January 1, I’ll concentrate solely on attempting to kill as many people as possible in my life.
He added that he would “take that truck drivers work, and I’ll arise as a spirit committing crimes across the country.”
The District Attorney’s Office has not responded to the letter that The Tribune received regarding the accusation.
Missouri gentleman who was recently accused of identity theft in SLO County
In connection with creating a false Social account of San Luis Obispo social activist Kevin P. Rice, Platek was charged with two counts of criminal identity fraud and a criminal charge of impersonating someone electronically on September 19.
According to the , District Attorney’s Office , at the time, Platek impersonated Rice via Facebook responses “in order to publish false claims that were intended to harm Kevin P. Rice’s status”.
The comments supposedly came from a San Luis Obispo Tribune content about convicted sex offender Brock Turner on August 9, 2018. By the time the charges were filed, the responses had been removed.
Rice was a prominent activist in the area who best known for his campaign fund complaints against political rivals and his development of the Oceano Dunes State Recreational Vehicle Area.
During Dow’s 2018 re-election plan, Rice filed a problem to the Fair Political Practices Commission against Dow’s player, Judge Mike Cummings. Rice claimed in a 2019 interview that Rice’s support for Dow was unrelated to the Platek legal case.
Rice claimed he had been “attacked over and over” in the feedback section of The Tribune’s Twitter posts and that he had written a letter of complaint to the District Attorney’s Office about the opinions from 2018 to 2018.
” I’ve had to stop transactions and this is why”, Rice said in 2019. ” I believe this will be a significant circumstance to function as an illustration of how far you can go on Facebook,” said one participant.
In the meantime, Platek’s defense attorney, Patrick Fisher, questioned the legality of the case in 2019 and claimed that the investigations began with a problem from a person who” seems to be at least a democratic ally of our neighborhood lawyer.”
” I don’t see a violence based on what I’ve seen so far”, Fisher said in 2019.
According to court documents, the charges were eventually dropped in the interest of righteousness.
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