马萨诸塞州18岁男子被控威胁总统：11月9日在 Boston 联邦法院首次出庭
位于美国马萨诸塞州米德尔塞克斯县 Tewksbury 市的一名18岁男子已被联邦指控。美国司法部马萨诸塞区联邦检察官办公室公布，Trenton Touch 被以刑事诉状指控一项威胁美国总统罪名；他目前被州方羁押，定于2026年11月9日在 Boston 的联邦法院首次出庭。
起诉文件指称，2026年9月10日，执法部门收到线索，称有四个 Instagram 账号含有暴力和威胁内容，其中包括针对美国总统的威胁。调查指称，Touch 是这四个账号的使用者，他曾多次发出威胁要杀害他人的信息，其中包括扬言要袭击学校，以及一条写有「kill trump」的信息。
文件还指称，Touch 于2026年6月21日曾在一条 Instagram 私信中发出一张枪支图片，并附上「it's time」「im gonna kill trump」等文字。执法人员搜查其住所时，查获一支左轮式枪支，以及迷彩服、防弹头盔、多把军用风格刀具和一把斧头等多件军用或军用剩余物品。
马萨诸塞区联邦检察官 Leah B. Foley 表示，Touch 被指称的威胁不容忽视，威胁美国总统是严重犯罪、不受言论自由保护。联邦调查局 Boston 分局特别探员主管 Ted E. Docks 表示，Boston 联合反恐任务组查获的证据显示，Touch 被指称具备实施威胁的手段，对公共安全构成严重威胁。
威胁总统罪名最高可判5年监禁、其后3年监管释放，并处最高25万美元罚款，实际刑期由联邦地区法官依据美国量刑指南及相关法律判处。此案由联邦助理检察官 Chris Looney 起诉，Methuen 警察局与马萨诸塞州警察提供了协助。起诉文件中的内容均为指控，Touch 在被法庭以排除合理怀疑证明有罪之前，应被推定为无罪。
（来源：美国司法部）
Massachusetts Man Charged with Making a Threat Against the President of the United States
An 18-year-old man from Tewksbury, a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, has been charged federally. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts announced that Trenton Touch was charged by criminal complaint with making a threat against the President of the United States. Touch is currently in state custody and will make an initial appearance in federal court in Boston on November 9, 2026.
According to the charging documents, on September 10, 2026, law enforcement received information relating to four Instagram accounts that contained violent and threatening content, including a threat against the President of the United States. The investigation alleges that Touch is the user of all four accounts, and that he submitted multiple communications threatening to kill others, including alleged threats to shoot up a school and a message reading "kill trump."
The documents further allege that on June 21, 2026, Touch posted an image of a firearm in an Instagram direct message along with threats including "it's time" and "im gonna kill trump." During a search of his residence, a revolver-style firearm was seized along with multiple military-style or military surplus items, including camouflage clothing, a ballistics helmet, military-style knives and a hatchet.
Leah B. Foley, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said Touch's alleged threats could not be ignored and that threatening the President is a serious crime and not protected free speech. Ted E. Docks, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Boston Division, said evidence recovered by FBI Boston's Joint Terrorism Task Force showed Touch allegedly had the means to carry out the threat and posed a grave threat to public safety.
The charge of making a threat against the President provides for a sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000, with the actual sentence imposed by a federal district court judge based on the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and governing statutes. Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Looney of the National Security Unit is prosecuting the case, with valuable assistance from the Methuen Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police. The details contained in the charging documents are allegations, and Touch is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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