ROCHESTER, NY—U.S. Attorney William J.
Hochul, Jr. announced that Hans Ni, 31, of Trenton, New Jersey, was charged in
a two-count indictment with transmitting interstate threats against the CEO and
president of Wegmans Food Market. Each of the charges carry a maximum penalty of
five years in prison, a $250,000, fine or both.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard A.
Resnick, who is handling the case, stated that the defendant, a New Jersey
resident and former Wegmans employee, is accused of sending threats to kill and
murder both the chief executive officer and the president of Wegmans. The
threats were sent over the Internet from a fictitious e-mail account from a
library in New Jersey. The fictitious e-mail account was in the name of the
defendant’s former supervisor at Wegmans, who had been involved in the
defendant’s termination from Wegmans in 2005.
A date for the defendant’s arraignment
on the charges has not yet been scheduled.
The indictment is the culmination of an
investigation on the part of special agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation Cyber Crimes Task Force, under the direction of Special Agent in
Charge Christopher M. Piehota; Cyber Crimes Task Force officers from the Monroe
County Sheriff’s Office, under the direction of Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn; and
the Rochester Police Department, under the direction of Chief James Shephard.
The fact that a defendant has been
charged with a crime is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed
innocent until and unless proven guilty.
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