A Florida dentist was sentenced to two years in prison between 2019 and 2024 for intimidating election officials and others.
From September 2019 to July 2020, Tampa’s 61-year-old Richard Glen Cantwill sent over 100 threats to a variety of public figures based on political commentary, from September 2019 to July 2020. As indicted with replacement information, these communications included threats to the author, religious figures, and television personality. Cantwill also sent at least seven additional threats via Facebook from April 2022 to April 2024.
Kantwill pleaded guilty to four counts of interstate propagation of threats in November 2024.
The announcement was made by Antoinette T. Bacon, an overseer of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, US lawyer Sarah C. Sweeney for the Central District of Florida, and special representatives of Matthew Fodor of the FBI’s Tamperfield office.
The FBI investigated the incident.
Trial attorney Aaron L. Jeanne, in the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division, and Abigail K. King of the Central District of Florida, have charged the case with support from the US Lawyer’s Office in the Colorado area.
