PLANO, Texas –
A 23-year-old Richardson, Texas man has been sentenced to prison for federal
violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D.
Brown and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno.
Rahul Ramesh
Joshi pleaded guilty on Oct. 3, 2019 to sending threatening communications to
injure another, in interstate commerce, and was sentenced to 48 months in
federal prison by U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant on March 6, 2020.
According to
information presented in court, in December 2018, a federal law enforcement
agent began investigating a complaint from a female Snapchat user. She allegedly received threatening messages
on different messaging apps from several different users that all seemed to be
connected. Further investigation
revealed at least four confirmed victims in different states all receiving similar
threatening messages. Joshi had lived in
Michigan before attending the University of Texas and eventually moving to
Richardson, Texas.
This case was
investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Field Office,
University of Pittsburgh Police Department, University of Texas Police
Department, and Wellesley Police Department in Massachusetts.
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