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Luis De Leon, 30, of Middleton, confessed to three counts of making threats in interstate commerce, but the court had not decided on a sentence, the US Attorney for Massachusetts announced Monday, Jan. 30.
The prosecutor said De Leon called his ex-wife on April 30, 2022, and threatened "war in the street."
“You’re gonna f****** pay! Do you understand!? There will be death! There will be war in the street! You wanna to go war!? I’ll take you to f****** war!" prosecutors said he told her.
In the following two months, De Leon allegedly sent two letters to his ex-wife's mother, in which he asked, "do you know what men with nothing left to lose usually do?”
“I’ll be heading over there soon […] God help you and your dysfunctional family if you try and stop me," he admitted to writing. "I won’t be alone either just so you know and that’s for your safety NOT MINE!!! […] If you don’t believe me just look where I’m sending this from. I don’t really have much else to lose, and do you know what men with nothing left to lose usually do?”
Each count of making threatening communications in interstate commerce carries a potential five-year prison sentence.
De Leon was formerly stationed at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire.
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