LOS ANGELES
A federal grand jury indicted a San Pedro, Calif. man with threatening to murder U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters in a phone call to her Capitol Hill office last month, officials announced Monday.
Anthony Scott Lloyd, 44, was charged with one count of threatening a U.S. official in an indictment filed Friday in federal court.
Lloyd was arrested in this case on November 9, one day after federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint that accused Lloyd of making the threatening phone call to Rep. Waters’ office.
According to the affidavit in support of the complaint, Lloyd called the Congresswoman’s office on October 22 and left a voicemail laced with expletives and epithets that uses the words “dead” and “kill” a total of four times.
Lloyd, who was freed on a $20,000 bond after his arrest, is scheduled to be arraigned on the indictment on Dec. 7.
Lloyd is presumed innocent unless found guilty
If convicted, Lloyd is facing up to 10 years in federal prison.