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By Mike Mitchell |
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February 16, 2010
- Gino Augustus Turrella, 47, of
Turrella was
convicted of two counts of making Interstate Communications with Threat
to Injure Person, seven counts of making Threat by Instrument of
Interstate Commerce, one count of possessing a Firearm during Threats of
Violence, and nine counts of Identity Theft. Turrella faces a mandatory
minimum five years in prison and up to 10 years in prison when sentenced
on February 19, 2010. |
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According to records in the case
and testimony at trial, Turrella sent threats via e-mail and through
the internet, on nine occasions between the dates of May 2, 2008,
and May 30, 2008. In making the threats, Turrella posed as other
real people, and used e-mail addresses that he had opened under the
names of those individuals.
In the e-mails that he transmitted to Boeing, Turrella stated variously that he was going to bring a gun into a Boeing facility and “shoot ever [sic] employee I see,” and also that he would “strap himself with explosives and detonate” them if and when he was apprehended, in order to cause “maximum death and destruction in the workplace!” In an e-mail he posted to the Anacortes oil refinery website, and to the Richmond, California Chevron Oil refinery website, he stated that “a bomb was placed at a strategic location at the oil refinery” and that he was “going to set if off via remote control” so that it “will kill the most of your employees and do the most destruction to your refinery.” |
In making the threats to the Boeing Company Turrella
posed as one of his former managers at the Boeing Company. Turrella was
angry at the manager because he had authorized disciplinary action
against him. In making the threats to the Shell and Chevron Oil
refineries, Turrella posed as a different person, a former co-worker at
another company that Turrella disliked. In both cases, Turrella apparently hoped that the people who he impersonated when making the threats would suffer repercussions, either in their jobs or even perhaps in the form of criminal investigation, because of them. Prosecutors were able to show that Turrella’s laptop contained evidence linking him to the e-mail accounts used to send the threats, and that the laptop had been logged on to the wireless networks at the King County Library or Highline Community College when the threatening communications were transmitted. |
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