Luis Sanchez Pardella, Transmitting a Threat in Interstate Commerce, Rhode Island 2023

PROVIDENCE – In a shocking display of aggression, former employee of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Middletown, Rhode Island, Luis Sanchez Pardella, 38, of Newport, has been charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce.

According to a criminal complaint, between July 2022 and February 2023, Pardella made numerous menacing and at times threatening telephone calls to at least eight of his former colleagues at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. In one instance, it is alleged that Pardella left a voicemail stating, “I will kill you and your wife when I see you on the street.”

The case took a dark turn when Pardella allegedly made multiple threatening telephone calls to the Portsmouth, RI, Police Department between December 2022 and February 2023. He stated that an officer and his wife “will be going to jail,” that “the Portsmouth Police Department is corrupt,” and “write down (name of officer’s wife) is dead write down. The wife of one of your cops is dead. Do you know who (name redacted) is? Write down she is dead.”

Pardella appeared before a U.S. Magistrate Judge on [Date] and was released with GPS monitoring and ordered to have no contact with any of the identified victims.

A federal criminal complaint is merely an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul F. Daly, Jr., with the assistance of Assistant U.S. Attorney Denise M. Barton.

The matter was investigated by the FBI, with the assistance of the Portsmouth Police Department, Middletown Police Department, Newport Police Department, Providence Police Department, and the Federal Air Marshal Service.

In accordance with the mandatory facts, the defendant Luis Sanchez Pardella, was charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce in Providence, Rhode Island on [Date].

Pardella’s current status is under GPS monitoring and he has been ordered to have no contact with any of the identified victims.

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