United States Attorney's Office for the District of Maine
04/27/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/27/2026 15:08
Cornish Man Pleads Guilty to Making Interstate Threats
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Cornish Man Pleads Guilty to Making Interstate Threats
Monday, April 27, 2026
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For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maine
Blake Tibbetts made a threatening post on a social media website
PORTLAND, Maine: A Cornish man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Portland to transmitting a threatening interstate communication.
According to court records, Blake Tibbetts, 25, made a post on X, a social media website, in which he used a racial epithet in an angry exchange with another X user and threatened to pay "a visit VERY soon" to the user's "kind," sending "them" his "condolences."
Tibbetts faces a maximum term of imprisonment of five years, a maximum fine of $250,000, and a maximum supervised release term of three years. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigative report by the U.S. Probation Office. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
The FBI, the Maine State Police, and the Office of the Maine State Fire Marshal investigated the case.
Contact
F. Todd Lowell, Assistant United States Attorney, (207) 780-3257
Updated April 27, 2026
Topic
Violent Crime
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