Corpus Christi Man Indicted for Threatening Communications
| U.S. Attorney’s Office January 27, 2012 |
NEW ORLEANS—ISAAC MEDRANO, age 45, a resident of Corpus Christi, Texas, was charged today in a single-count indictment by a federal grand jury for transmitting in interstate commerce threatening communications to injure a Louisiana man and his family, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.
According to court records, MEDRANO, called the Louisiana victim, K.B., and threatened to come to his home and cut him and injure K.B.’s family. As alleged in the complaint, the telephonic and textual threats persisted between September 1, 2011 through December 11, 2011.
If convicted, MEDRANO faces a maximum term of five years’ imprisonment, a $250,000.00 fine, three years of supervised release following any term of imprisonment, and a $100.00 special assessment.
U.S. Attorney Letten reiterated that the indictment of a defendant is merely a charge and that the guilt of the defendant must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Abe McGull.