Man arrested, accused of threatening to kill CNN employees

[Judi Lynn]

20. Brandon Griesemer: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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Brandon Griesemer, of Novi, Michigan, pictured with his family.

A 19-year-old Michigan man is accused of making several threatening phone calls to CNN in early January, calling the news network “fake news” and saying that he was “coming to gun you all down,” the FBI says.

Brandon Griesemer, a part-time grocery store worker from Novi, Michigan, was arrested January 19 on a federal threatening charge, according to court documents filed in the Eastern District of Michigan.

Griesemer was charged with transmitting in interstate or foreign commerce a communication or communications containing a threat to kidnap or to injure the person of another, which carries a potential five-year prison sentence if convicted. The FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office have not commented or issued a statement about the case, which was unsealed on January 19. It was first reported by WGCL-TV in Atlanta.

Griesemer’s father, Mark Griesemer, told The Washington Post, “this whole thing has been a mistake, he really didn’t mean any of it. He didn’t know what he was saying, the seriousness of it. We’re not even gun owners or anything like that. We don’t have any, neither does he. More will come out later. Hopefully, this can be settled.”

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