OKLAHOMA CITY – DAVID AARON JACOBS, 43, of Oklahoma City,
has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for intentionally conveying false and
misleading information by making a hoax threat of a mass shooting announced
U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
A superseding criminal information was filed in January 2020
against Jacobs that charged him with a single count of making a hoax threat on
March 30, 2017. According to the
information, Jacobs emailed the El Reno Police Department and a local news
station stating: "[t]wo boys that
[the defendant] know[s] are planning to do something awful. They have been meeting at the house of a
Palestinian man name[d] [Individual 1] who lives in Oklahoma city and
[Individual 1] has given them guns and helped them to plan to shoot people at
the big academic testing event at Redlands Community College tomorrow
afternoon."
At the time he made the hoax threat, Jacobs was on federal
supervised release after serving the term of imprisonment for his previous federal
convictions for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Based on his new crime, Jacobs’s term of
supervised release was revoked on August 17, 2017, and he was sentenced to an
additional term of 36 months’ imprisonment.
This afternoon, Senior U.S. District Judge David L. Russell
sentenced Jacobs to serve 42 months in prison, to run partially concurrent with
18 months of his revocation. Judge
Russell also ordered Jacobs to pay $22,996.39 in restitution to law enforcement
for the costs of responding to the hoax and imposed three years of supervised
release upon his release from prison.
This case is the result of an investigation by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation—Oklahoma City Field Office’s Joint Terrorism Task
Force, with assistance from the El Reno Police Department and the U.S. Marshals
Service. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matt
Dillon and Mark Stoneman prosecuted the case.
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