A Fairfax man pleaded guilty yesterday (Monday) after he was accused of threatening to kill employees from both the U.S. Postal Service and Department of Veterans’ Affairs.
Kenneth R. Woodard, 57, faces 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count each of making threatening communications over interstate commerce and threatening to kill a federal official, the Justice Department announced.
Woodard allegedly made threats to kill a Veterans’ Affairs police officer and four different postal service employees on five different occasions between April and May, prosecutors said in a statement of facts.
The initial threat against the police officer came on April 29, allegedly following a tense interaction with Woodard at a VA facility in D.C., the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said.
Prosecutors say Woodard told the officer that he’s “coming down there” with a gun.
“Trust me that will go through his bulletproof vest,” Woodard allegedly said.
Each of the threats against postal service employees came on May 13, apparently due to a missing package, according to court documents. In a couple calls, Woodard claimed to be a U.S. Marine sniper, prosecutors said.
During one interaction with a USPS Customer Care Center employee based in California, Woodard threatened that “if the package was not delivered the same day, he was ‘coming to the post office with a G-d d–n gun,'” federal prosecutors said.
On May 28, Woodard also “told a VA crisis specialist that he was going to find and rape the crisis specialist’s husband and children,” the statement of facts said.
Woodard is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 26, according to online court records. He could face up to 10 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
