A federal grand jury in Louisville indicted a local woman for mailing threatening communications to her neighbors.
According to court documents, Suzanne Craft, 54, sent multiple threatening communications via the United States Postal Service to a family that lived in her neighborhood in November and December of 2020.
Many of these communications contained threats of violence and racial slurs.
Craft is charged with five counts of interstate communication with threat to kidnap or injure in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 876(c).
The defendant made her initial court appearance on August 19, 2022, before a U.S. Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.
After a hearing held yesterday, Craft was ordered detained pending trial.
If convicted, Craft faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. There is no parole in the federal system.
A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Postal Inspection Service are investigating the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Christopher Tieke and Stephanie Zimdahl of the Western District of Kentucky and Trial Attorney Mary J. Hahn of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division are prosecuting the case.
An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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Key Facts
- State: Kentucky
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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