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Timothy Wells Stevens, a 57-year-old man from Wayne County, Missouri, made two chilling phone calls to the Social Security Administration (SSA) in 2025, threatening to harm employees. On October 1, 2025, Stevens was told he wasn’t due for payments, prompting him to unleash a barrage of violent threats, including blowing up SSA offices. He repeated these threats in a second call, just 30 minutes later.
Stevens’ plea agreement revealed the disturbing details of his phone calls, in which he claimed he would ‘hunt every last one’ of the SSA employees down and blow them up if he didn’t receive his payments. The Federal Protective Police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations launched an investigation into the case.
As a result of his guilty plea to two counts of transmitting a threatening communication in interstate commerce, Stevens was sentenced to a year and a day in prison, followed by two years of supervised release. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Willis in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau.
The severity of Stevens’ sentence reflects the seriousness with which law enforcement agencies take threats against federal employees. The Social Security Administration takes all threats seriously, and the consequences for making such threats can be severe.
📋 Key Facts
- Crime: Violent Crime
- Defendant: Missouri
- Location: MO
- Source: DOJ Press Release
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