SEATTLE (AP) - The King County Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday filed criminal charges against a Seattle firefighter who authorities say sent threatening emails to a City Councilmember.
KOMO reports two counts of cyberstalking and one count of second-degree identity theft have been filed against Andrew Finseth.
Identity theft is a felony. Cyberstalking is a gross misdemeanor.
Finseth allegedly sent four threatening emails to Councilmember Kshama Sawant from a fellow firefighter’s email in Dec. 2020 and Jan. 2021. The email address was illegally accessed, the prosecutor’s office says.
Authorities say the emails were traced back to an IP addresses used by Finseth at his home and his church. The emails expressed a strong dislike for Sawant and her performance as a councilmember and warned her to “get out of the city or else.”
Attempts to reach an attorney for Finseth weren’t immediately successful.
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