Nicholas Wimbish, Mailing Bomb Threat, Georgia 2024

A Georgia poll worker has been arrested for mailing a bomb threat to the Jones County Elections Superintendent.

Nicholas Wimbish, 25, of Milledgeville, Georgia, was charged with mailing a bomb threat, conveying false information about a bomb threat, mailing a threatening letter, and making false statements to the FBI.

According to the FBI, Wimbish was serving as a poll worker at the Jones County Elections Office on Oct. 16 when he allegedly had a verbal altercation with a voter. Later that evening, Wimbish conducted online research to determine what information about himself would be publicly available.

The following day, Wimbish mailed a letter addressed to the Jones County Elections Superintendent, purportedly from a ‘Jones County Voter.’

The letter, which contained threatening language, stated that Wimbish and others ‘should look over their shoulder,’ that ‘I know where they go,’ that ‘I know where they all live because I found home voting addresses for all them,’ and that the ‘young men will get beatdown if they fight me’ and ‘will get the treason punishment by firing squad if they fight back.’

The letter also threatened to ‘rage rape’ the ‘ladies’ and warned them to ‘watch every move they make and look over their shoulder.’

The letter concluded with a handwritten note, ‘PS boom toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be safe.’

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and U.S. Attorney Peter D. Leary for the Middle District of Georgia made the announcement.

The FBI Atlanta Field Office is investigating the case.

Wimbish faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison if convicted.

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