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Date: 08-19-2022
Case Style:
United States of America v. Harvey Dulgar
Case Number: 4:21-cr-00314-MWB
Judge: Matthew W. Brann
Court: United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (Lycoming County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Williamsport, Pennsylvania criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with making interstate threats.
Harvey Dulgar, age 38, from Salem, Oregon was indicted for violating 18 U.S.C. 875, which provides:
(a) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any demand or request for a ransom or reward for the release of any kidnapped person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(b) Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(c) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
(d) Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to injure the property or reputation of the addressee or of another or the reputation of a deceased person or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other person of a crime, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
In July 2021, Dulgar placed a call from Oregon to the Montgomery Area School District. Dulgar left a threatening message on the school’s answering machine including stating that it would be “a school of ashes” that there would be “dead kids along the way.” Dulgar entered a guilty plea to making interstate threats in March 2022.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pennsylvania State Police. Assistant U.S. Attorney Geoffrey W. MacArthur is prosecuting this case.
Outcome: BOP for a term of Twelve (12) months. Three (3) years supervised release, with standard and special conditions. $100 Special assessment. $100 fine.
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