Miami Man Sentenced to 24 Months in Federal Prison for Threatening to Execute Rubio and Noem on X
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida announced on November 12 that Jon Christopher Enriquez, 47, of Miami, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom to 24 months in federal prison for posting threats on the social media platform X to execute Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem, who was then serving as the Department of State's Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas.
According to court records, on May 27, 2026, Enriquez published three public posts on X over the course of an afternoon threatening that both officials would be executed at specific times.
Enriquez had pleaded guilty to three counts of transmitting threats through interstate communications. Acting U.S. Attorney Yara Lorenzo Klukas said that threatening to kill the nation's leaders from behind a keyboard is not harmless speech but a serious federal crime, and that prosecutors will work relentlessly with law enforcement partners to identify and bring to justice those who make such threats.
The Diplomatic Security Service investigated the case, with assistance from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the City of Miami Police Department, and the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Y. Carre prosecuted the case, number 26-cr-20239.
(Source: U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida)
Source: U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida
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