The Princeton man indicted by a federal grand jury in April has seen two new charges added.
A June 11 indictment returned in federal court in Paducah charges 36-year-old Thomas Rutter Woollacott with two counts of Threatening a Federal Official.
The new charges allege Woollacott threatened to assault and murder a United States official known to the grand jury and identified as ‘United States Official #1.’ The indictment said the threats were made on March 23 and April 12 while the official was engaged in the performance of official duties and with the intent to retaliate against the performance of those duties.
Woollacott was arrested by federal officials last month in Trigg County where he worked. He was charged then with threatening to assault, or murder, a United States Official after the United States Capitol Police Threat Assessment Section was notified by the office of an unnamed U.S. official of receiving two “concerning voicemails” from what was later determined to be Woollacott.
The first indictment said Capitol Police attempted to do a telephone interview with Woollacott in April to confirm his voicemails, and after two tries, the agent was unable to do so because of profanity-filled rhetoric.
During the investigation, multiple witnesses stated to the FBI that Woollacott held “significant anti-government beliefs,” and expressed approval of violence against government officials and law enforcement.
