Jacksonville, Florida – Seyed Ali Soroushjou (38,
Cockeysville, Maryland) has pleaded guilty to sending threatening
communications online via Facebook. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in
federal prison; a sentencing date has not yet been set. Soroushjou has been in
federal custody since his arrest.
According to court documents, on August 29, 2016, a
Jacksonville resident (Person A) contacted law enforcement to report that she
had received threatening messages through Facebook from an individual she did
not know who had identified himself by the user name “MobyDick NahanghaVahshi.”
A subsequent investigation identified the user as Soroushjou and revealed that
he had sent the messages in response to a photograph that Person A had posted
on her Facebook page of her posing with three officers from the New York Police
Department. In his first message to the victim, sent on August 24, 2016,
Soroushjou threatened to assault the officers depicted in the photo. In a
second message three days later, Soroushjou graphically stated that he intended
to sexually assault Person A.
Following the execution of a search warrant at Soroushjou’s
home in Maryland, he was arrested. Agents also seized three computer devices
that he had used to access Person A’s Facebook account.
This case was investigated by the FBI. It is being
prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney D. Rodney Brown.
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