Crime New Jersey man arrested for threatening Volusia sheriff on 4chan, Sheriff’s Office says

A man from New Jersey was arrested on Monday for threatening to kill Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood, authorities said.

Richard Golden, 38, faces extradition to Volusia County and a felony charge for written threat to kill or cause injury, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Golden’s threat, posted on a 4chan on Feb. 22, regarded Chitwood’s stance against an upswing antisemitic activities in Volusia County.

The threat read: “Just shoot Chitwood in the head and he stops being a problem. They have to find a new guy to be the problem...But shooting Chitwood in the head solves an immediate problem permanently. Just shoot Chitwood in the head and murder him.”

The Central Florida Intelligence Exchange flagged the threat and launched a joint investigation.

South Brunswick Police Department officers arrested Golden Monday afternoon. According to the arrest report, Golden told detectives that he did not intend to act on the threat he made.

Golden is being held at the Middlesex County Corrections Center, pending extradition to Volusia County.

In a statement, South Brunswick Police Chief Raymond Hayducka said “the anonymous nature of the internet may make people feel they can say anything, but if you make threats or put people in fear we will use all our resources to track you down.”

Chitwood has been publicly denouncing hate-speech and hate groups following a stunt last month over International Speedway Boulevard, where white supremacists where recorded holding up antisemitic signs in an attempt to harass Jewish people.

The following day, antisemitic messages and flyers were spread throughout Volusia County. The Sheriff’s family was also targeted by hate groups.

“I cannot wait to meet [Golden] when he gets off the plane,” Chitwood said, “because one of the first faces he’s going to see welcoming him to the Volusia County Jail, the happiest place on earth, is going to be me.”

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The post in question

 

[PST Stan Account]

Call me old fashioned, but when we used to say "I hope you get stomach cancer" there was no way to interpret that as actionable and it had the added bonus of being a particularly painful death.

This is terrible precident and should be corrected right after all of the people on Twitter who said they were going to rape, kill, rape then kill, or kill then rape JK Rowling are also arrested. This one guy in jail for no reason vs. those thousands is a fair trade.

How many rape threats do you think JK Simmons accidentally got sent?

 

[frozen_runner]

He deserved to be arrested. He’s an antisemitic ass and made threats. The world is a better place with him for a while behind bars. Hard to believe there are people on here that think the guy got a hard break.

Rat kikes deserve a 4th Reich.

Mad?

How many rape threats do you think JK Simmons accidentally got sent?

After all those obnoxious State Farm commercials? More than zero.

 

[Akari Is My Wife]

Call me old fashioned, but when we used to say "I hope you get stomach cancer" there was no way to interpret that as actionable and it had the added bonus of being a particularly painful death.

This is terrible precident and should be corrected right after all of the people on Twitter who said they were going to rape, kill, rape then kill, or kill then rape JK Rowling are also arrested. This one guy in jail for no reason vs. those thousands is a fair trade.

How many rape threats do you think JK Simmons accidentally got sent?

I wanna know how many Gene Simmons gets. I imagine he gets them because KISS SUCKS

STAY MAD KISSFAGS

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

How is this a violent threat? He's not threatening to kill the sheriff. He's not even asking other people to kill him. He's just saying "I hope someone shoots him dead", which is free speech because wishing for the assassination of public officials is not a crime. And it's true--sheriff Chitwood does deserve to be shot in the head (and the rest of his body with a gun firing tar and feathers), because that's what people would've done to him back in the good days. It's funny to compare this to the Youtube schizo arrested by the FBI the other day, since he said far more direct threats and only got hit with illegal firearms charges.

Like I know you think fedposting is anything that criticizes a politician more than "let's peacefully vote the bad guys out of office", but you have to know that's the same argument used for saying Trump belongs in jail for his incitment to January 6. Courts don't interpret "incitement" that way since you have to be way more specific than "shoot him in the head", you have to say to a group who can actually carry out the threat "shoot him in the head at this place on this day."

I mean Trevor covers it pretty well here... what dude said was perfectly fine legally.

hope vs should...

Seems like the guy was more talking in theoretical

 

[HarveyMCR]

That's certainly an interpretation of the 1st Amendment you don't see very often.

Fuck originalism vs textualism. I believe in retardism - where we take the most retarded interpretation of the constitution possible

 

[Seventh Star]

He deserved to be arrested. He’s an antisemitic ass and made threats. The world is a better place with him for a while behind bars. Hard to believe there are people on here that think the guy got a hard break.

Oh! Watch it, I will be turning you into a Dove bar if you step out of line again. (In Minecraft).

I wanna know how many Gene Simmons gets. I imagine he gets them because KISS SUCKS

STAY MAD KISSFAGS

You're just mad because you can't enjoy the hottest band in the world.

 

[AnOminous]

@AnOminous could you give some insight on how this would qualify as a legitimate threat?

It doesn't strike me as a threat because he wasn't saying he'd do it, he just said someone should. That would be incitement, if anything, but to get past Brandenburg it would need to be proven that it wasn't merely intended to cause the imminent lawless action it espouses, but was also likely to do so. Nobody is going and shooting an inbred, retarded pig sheriff because they read a 4chan post.

That said, this is Florida, and despite being from Jersey, this dude is a Florida Man. He could easily end up convicted.

More importantly, though, 4chan is clearly a honeypot at this point. Post at your peril. Almost all VPNs are banned, tor is banned, you can barely even phonepost. Short of directly posting from your own home Internet or using something like luminaty, you can't post there.

Fuck gookmoot. [insert nigger copypasta but with gookmoot here]

So this is what happens when you fedpost from your own home Internet. Don't do that.

Also fuck Mike Shitwood.

The process is the punishment.

The man speaks truth.

I'm pretty sure telling others to do murder is also illegal.

It is but it has to be not only intended to result in lawless action but also likely to cause it.

This is somewhat more than what Brandenburg was convicted of, which was abstract advocacy of political violence, but it still seems to fail the test. I guess we'll see whether the "Minecraft Defense" is actually availing, as it's essentially a disclaimer that what precedes it is actually to be taken seriously.

Also this butthurt fag pig should be disqualified from even having custody of a guy he's clearly taking personal revenge on, abusing his office to do so. This nigger should be. . .umm. . .never mind.

There's such thing as legal standards, retard. Criminal incitement has two prongs: only the first covers the actual words being spoken, and the second is "likely to incite or produce such an action". They would have to demonstrate that there was an imminent risk of someone actually being incited to violence by his words. If it doesn't pass muster on both counts, the charges aren't going to stick.

Yes, that's called the Brandenburg test, after the case that stated it, reversing the conviction of a Klan leader for abstract advocacy of violence. (Yes it's Wikipedo but one of their passable articles.)

 

[Akari Is My Wife]

You're just mad because you can't enjoy the hottest band in the world.

I've got that one Anal Cunt song about Gene Simmons stuck in my head:

You better watch out
I own a bank machine
You only took out ten
I charged you 4.19

 

[Toolbox]

He did not make a single threat. He expressed his desire to see this bitchmade sheriff shot in the head which is 100% First Amendment protected, just like being an antisemite is. Unlike Britfag/Eurofag countries, there are actually laws that protect free speech.

Reminder that quiche also went about in multiple threads defending child trooning. I don't know if he legitimately believes everything he talks about or if he just loves to contradict what other people are saying but pretending to be this retarded still seems to make you so.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

But your honor he added "In Minecraft"

 

[Xarpho's Return]

A public official holding this view

should immediately get fired.

"someone said that he would kill me on the Internet. ARREST HIM!" -Chief Raymond Hayducka

I'm not sure what the political system is like in Volusia County but it sounds like Chitwood was running the shots and all the law enforcement was his bitch.

Given that he was lent the support of the FBI the idea they'll try to roll this guy out as a 2024 candidate to swap out for Biden is becoming close to reality. A degenerate and a complete bastard who will destroy anyone who criticizes him? Cool, just like the decline of the Roman Empire!

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Also what's with bringing up gay sex? Why are Americans so obsessed with it?

Americans at large are very mentally disordered about anything that can be counted as a sexual topic.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Yo, I hope niggas I don’t like get anal raped by a ton of gays, their assholes full of sperm as they are like “ooohhh, nooo… my anus” struggling not to drop the massive loads from their rectum into the jailhouse pavement to be mocked.

How many rape threats do you think JK Simmons accidentally got sent?

You mean JK Rowling?

Threats are totally cool as long as they are against people who the feds or big pharma doesn’t like.

Like, in example, I hypothetically could post endless posts on all social media about planning to murder Tim Pool or that Styx guy or something. I bet the feds would give you a medal and buy you a house, lol

 

[Duke Nukem]

That's certainly an interpretation of the 1st Amendment you don't see very often.

It's not the interpretation I like but it's the one that the degenerates in Washington most likely subscribe to. Obviously people don't like my take on it but I'm just proving a point that the assholes in charge do not give a smidgen about your so-called "inalienable rights."

 

[Monkey Pink]

Aight. You guys didn't hear it from me, but you totally did.

You wanna cancel Shitwood? Look into his past remarks where he refers to Black people as "thugs". I'm going to try and grab various articles but I've been around that area before and I know this guy damn well. He just wants to be in the media spotlight, I've heard people call him "Hollywood Chitwood", etc. Very annoying man.

 

[Skeletonized Cow]

He deserved to be arrested. He’s an antisemitic ass and made threats. The world is a better place with him for a while behind bars. Hard to believe there are people on here that think the guy got a hard break.

I'm going to run for the Presidency just so I can throw you and Chitwood into a rocket pointed at the Sun. You retarded, useless, mongoloid.

 

[notafederalagent]

the assholes in charge do not give a smidgen about your so-called "inalienable rights."

Someone should line them up against a wall and spray them in the face with a Super Soaker.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Someone should line them up against a wall and spray them in the face with a Super Soaker.

It's Nerf or nothin'!

I, for one, used to own one of these. It seems the bigger they were the more easily they broke. But this one lasted for a while.

 

[seri0us]

the "in Minecraft" which the feds are probably well aware of by now given that the meme has been floating around for the last few years

What meme? You don't like playing Minecraft???

 

[Fatniggo1488]

He deserved to be arrested. He’s an antisemitic ass and made threats. The world is a better place with him for a while behind bars. Hard to believe there are people on here that think the guy got a hard break.

The holocaust didn't happen, but it should have.