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This undated photo provided by Clarke County Sheriff’s Department Oct. 29, 2025, shows weapons and ammunition removed from the home of an Alabama man following a search warrant. (Clarke County Sheriff’s Department via AP)

Alabama man charged with threatening rabbis, imam and others in multiple Southern states

Federals prosecutors have charged an Alabama man with making threatening calls and texts to multiple rabbis, an imam and others in the South, including telling one that “I want you to die.”Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker of Needham, Alabama, was charged with making an Interstate Communications Threat. He was arrested earlier on related state charges of resisting arrest and possession of a pistol by a  person forbidden to legally have a handgun. An FBI agent wrote in court documents that the man made a series of menacing calls and texts to rabbis in Alabama and Louisiana, an imam in Georgia, a church in North Carolina and others. Weapons were later found in the man’s home.

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