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|||{{headline}}A Maryland man is facing several years behind bars for allegedly posting online about destroying a federal building.A Maryland man is facing several years behind bars for allegedly posting online about destroying a federal building.Cody Wolf Gideon Mohr, 27, of Columbia was named in a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland.An investigative unit for the Treasury Department was conducting routine checks of online threats to the Internal Revenue Service.During a search Tuesday, the day before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, or TIGTA, found Mohr’s Twitter account.Mohr, under the handle @BonaFried, allegedly tweeted publicly back on Jan. 15, “I am going to explode the IRS headquarters with a bomb.”And that wasn’t the only tweet.One of Mohr’s tweets, prosecutors said, talked about why he was revealing his plans, saying he was “simply announcing my intentions to give employees a fair shot at escaping alive.”Other posts included “thinking of ways to kill [Speaker of the House] Nancy Pelosi” and “[it would be cool to] drive 80 mph into a million people.”Additional tweets spoke of threatening police officers during traffic stops, building a semi-automatic rifle and obtaining firearms.“We take threats to bomb a federal building and injure federal employees seriously,” U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert K. Hur said in a statement.Mohr is charged with making internet threats to destroy a federal building by use of explosive and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.An initial court appearance for Mohr has yet to be scheduled.|||||This article was written by WTOP’s news partners at&nbsp;&nbsp;and republished with permission.&nbsp;Sign up for today.Log in to your WTOP account for notifications and alerts customized for you.

|||{{headline}}A Maryland man is facing several years behind bars for allegedly posting online about destroying a federal building.A Maryland man is facing several years behind bars for allegedly posting online about destroying a federal building.Cody Wolf Gideon Mohr, 27, of Columbia was named in a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland.An investigative unit for the Treasury Department was conducting routine checks of online threats to the Internal Revenue Service.During a search Tuesday, the day before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, the Treasury...

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