Tennessee man pleads guilty to Internet threats aimed at police officers

By Jennifer Cruz

In this photo, Robert Ellis Waddey aims a handgun at an unsuspecting Tennessee State Trooper. (Photo: News Channel 5)
The Justice Department announced Tuesday that a 22-year-old man from Nashville, Tennessee, pleaded guilty in court last week to charges stemming from threatening communications he posted on social media depicting violence against law enforcement.
Robert Ellis Waddey is charged with communicating a threat by interstate commerce, as well as being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of firearms. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He is due to be sentenced in October.
According to an indictment returned in February, Waddey created a number of threatening photos, including one posted to Instagram that shows a handgun aimed at a Tennessee State Trooper vehicle with the captions, “F*ck them non attentive hoes” and “Gona die lookin at his computer.”
During the investigation, authorities discovered a slew of violence-laden photos of police officers on Waddey’s phone. Investigators also found numerous text messages to multiple recipients which not only discussed killing cops, which he described using offensive language, but also indicated Waddey found pleasure in recent cop killings.
One text message talked about Waddey’s recent trip to the firing range and

Source: Guns.com