[T]he Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested 51-year-old Roland Prejean, also known as Gary Gravelle, who is suspected of sending a series of emails to Burlington schools, Burlington International Airport, as well as other public buildings threatening to “engage in a spree of murderous violence against the community,” police said on Thursday.
Prejean is being held on a supervised release violation.
“There is no reason to believe these threats presented an actual danger to the community, and this especially so since the suspect was swiftly taken into federal custody,” Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo said in a statement after the FBI arrested Prejean on Wednesday in New Haven, Connecticut.
Prejean is a suspect in four instances Wednesday in which white powder — which turned out to be baby powder – was sent to federal and state offices in Hartford, Connecticut, according to Connecticut media.
In 2010, Prejean was sentenced in federal court to 70 months for mailing a letter claiming to have planted a bomb in a post office — a bomb was not found by investigators.
During the 2010 trial, the government showed evidence of 50 other “threatening letters” Prejean mailed both prior to his arrest and while he was detained in federal custody.
An FBI spokesperson said there is no further information on Prejean at this time.
