From the Justice Department:
Donavon Parish, 29, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, pleaded guilty today to one count of cyberstalking and five counts of abuse and harassment using a telecommunications device. Parish also admitted to a special finding that he targeted his victims based on their actual and perceived religion.
According to court documents, during April and May 2022, the defendant used a voiceover internet protocol service to make a series of phone calls to synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
In these calls, the defendant spoke to individuals answering the telephone calls on behalf of their respective institutions, at which time he repeatedly referenced the genocide of approximately six million Jewish people during the Holocaust, stating, among other things, “Heil Hitler,” “all Jews must die,” “we will put you in work camps,” “gas the Jews” and “Hitler should have finished the job.”
Parish is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 24 and faces a statutory maximum penalty of 15 years in prison, three years of supervised release, a $1.5 million fine and a $600 special assessment.
Read the full press release.
Mississippi man pleads guilty to making threatening calls to Jewish delis and synagogues in Philly region https://t.co/VVQ0wIjNf0
— The Philadelphia Inquirer (@PhillyInquirer) June 19, 2024
A Mississippi man accused of harassing Philadelphia Synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses with vows to put their owners “into work camps” and comments of “all Jews should burn” has been indicted on federal cyberstalking charges, authorities said.
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