A federal court in Dayton, Ohio, has sentenced 23-year-old Alex Jaques of Centerville to 72 months in prison for possessing a machine gun and making online threats to commit a school shooting.
The defendant was arrested in November 2022 after the FBI National Threat Operations Center received a tip about a video Jaques posted on YouTube.
In the video, Jaques uses multiple firearms to shoot a Chromebook computer and threatens to attack Washington Middle School in Salinas, California.
Before shooting the computer, Jaques stabs it multiple times with a screwdriver and uses a power drill on it, then discharges an uzi-style weapon in rapid succession and fires multiple shots from a rifle-style weapon.
Law enforcement officials communicated with school officials in Salinas, California, and discovered that Jaques had been a student at a school within the same county.
Jaques also commented publicly on a YouTube video of family members of the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed.
Jaques was arrested in November 2022 and pleaded guilty to a superseding bill of information in March 2023.
The court imposed an upward variance from the sentencing guidelines, stating that the sentence imposed was necessary to protect the community from Jaques’ dangerous behavior.
Assistant United States Attorneys Christina Mahy and Nicholas Dingeldein represented the United States in this case, while Kenneth L. Parker, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, and Elena Iatarola, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cincinnati Division, announced the charges.
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Key Facts
- State: Ohio
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: Official Source ↗
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