Vice President Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two in late July (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, Pool, File).
A Winchester, Virginia, man who vowed to light Vice President Kamala Harris on fire and “personally pluck out her eyes” reacted with surprise when investigators showed up at his door “over a comment,” a federal complaint alleges.
The defendant, identified as Frank Lucio Carillo, allegedly used his GETTR account to make “threatening statements” about Harris and others, including President Joe Biden, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a recently primaried Arizona Republican official who rejected claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump as baseless “lies and conspiracy theories” and who filed a defamation lawsuit Kari Lake for insisting that the 2022 gubernatorial election was marred by fraud.
Carillo is charged under 18 U.S. Code § 871 with “knowingly and willfully mak[ing] a threat to take the life of and to inflict bodily harm upon the Vice President of the United States,” the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
Documents said the offense occurred “on or about July 27,” six days after Biden said he would not run for reelection and announced support for Harris.
Investigators said that Carillo in one post said Harris doesn’t “have a snowballs chance in hell which is exactly where you’re going and soon,” adding “I will cut your eyes out of your F—ING head” and “will make sure you suffer a slow agonizing death[.]”
In another post, he allegedly said he would “personally” set Harris on fire “if no one else does[.]” In a third post, Carillo allegedly said Harris is “going to regret ever trying to become president because if that ever happened I will personally pluck out her eyes with a pair of pliers but first I will shoot and kill everyone that gets in my way that is a f****** promise.”
The last July 27 post mentioned in the complaint allegedly said “Crapler Harris is laying [sic] thieving piece of garbage like the rest of this administration they all need to die and they will soon.”
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When the feds showed up at his home on Aug. 2, the complaint said, Carillo allegedly said he owned a pistol and an AR-15 and made remarks of surprise about the reason for the law enforcement visit.
“[F]or a comment. This is ridiculous, for a comment,” he allegedly said. “I guess I’m gonna need a lawyer.”
After making the lawyer statement, the feds alleged, Carillo said: “This is all over a comment, huh?”
The charged offense is punishable by up to five years behind bars upon conviction.
Read the federal complaint here.
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