Florida man pleads guilty to threats to decapitate members of Congress
A Florida man pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to charges stemming from threats of two members of Congress and a district attorney.
Paul Vernon Hoeffer, 60, of Palm Beach Gardens, made the plea at a Fort Pierce court to three counts of interstate transmission of threats to injure, according to the Department of Justice.
As part of the plea, Hoeffer admitted to calling one congresswoman in March 2019 with a threat to “rattle her head with bullets and cut her head off,” according to the DOJ.
Officials said he called a district attorney in Illinois with a similar threat on the same day telling her bullets were going to “rattle her brain.”
Hoeffer admitted to another threat in November 202...
