Overview

• Federal agents arrested 60-year-old Jeffrey Dorsey late Tuesday in Dayton after tracing an explicit voicemail to a congressional office line.
• According to charging documents, Dorsey warned that if the representative voted to cut Medicaid he would “cut your ... head off” and kill him.
• Dorsey appeared in U.S. District Court in Dayton Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. after prosecutors unsealed a criminal complaint, and a judge ordered him held pending further proceedings.
• The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio charged Dorsey under the federal interstate threat statute, which bars threatening communications across state lines.
• FBI Cincinnati Special Agent in Charge Elena Iatarola emphasized that threats against public officials are taken seriously and will not be tolerated.