Federal prosecutors said Friday that an Alabama man has been arrested and charged with making menacing calls and texts to rabbis, an imam and other religious leaders across several Southern states.
Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker, 31, of Needham, Ala., was charged in federal court with transmitting interstate threats, authorities said. Shoemaker was taken into custody earlier on related state charges of resisting arrest and possession of a pistol by a person forbidden to legally have a handgun, officials said.
He is being held in the Choctaw County Jail – it’s in Needham, which is a small town located in southwest Alabama nearly 10 miles from the Mississippi-Alabama border…