Orlando Man sentenced for threats, damaging energy facility over perceived Israel support – Orlando, FL

May 2, 2025

The U.S. Department of Justice says [name] was sentenced Thursday to six years in federal prison for threatening to use explosives and destruction of an energy facility.

According to the Justice Department, beginning around June 2024, [name] targeted and attacked businesses in the Orlando area for their perceived support for Israel. Prosecutors say he smashed glass front doors of businesses during the night.

Prosecutors say he also left behind “warning letters” addressed to the president of the United States and the United States government, in which he made a series of political demands, culminating in a threat to “destroy or explode everything here in whole America. Especially the companies and factories that support the racist state of Israel.”

At the end of June, [name] broke into a solar power generation facility in Wedgefield and systematically destroyed solar panel arrays, while leaving behind two more copies of his threatening demand letter, the news release states. The attacks caused more than $450,000 in damage.

[Name] was arrested on July 11, 2024, after another letter threatening to “destroy or explode everything” was found at an industrial propane gas distribution depot in Orlando.

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“They Can’t Beat All of Us”

From CrimethInc.

A Reportback from the Florida Abolitionist Gathering

From February 28 to March 2, hundreds of abolitionists and anarchists from across the country converged in Gainesville for the first Florida Abolitionist Gathering (FAG). Across a passionate weekend of workshops, films, food, debate, ritual, and protest, the contours of a robust regional resistance movement came into focus. The intergenerational, heavily queer and trans, and strongly multi-issue and anarchist group of abolitionists that converged in Florida articulated an expansive vision of liberation anchored in the urgent need to dismantle the prison-industrial complex in all its manifestations. The gathering showed that even as liberals wring their hands about the death of democracy, scrappy groups of organizers continue to fight back—and sometimes win—deep within the belly of the beast.

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