Puget Sound Man Charged For Anti-Semitic Terror Threats

EVERETT, WA — A Monroe man accused of threatening to kill scores of Jewish people has been charged in Snohomish County. Dakota Reed was arrested in December at his mother's Lake Forest Park home by Snohomish County deputies and the FBI.

Reed has been charged with two counts of threats to bomb or injure. He was released from jail shortly after his arrest last December on bond. He was rearrested on Monday and is now being held in the Snohomish County Jail on $500,000 bond, according to jail records.

Reed's arrest came just about a month after 11 people were shot and killed at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. In social media posts, Reed said he wanted to pull "a Dylann Roof" — a reference to the South Carolina gunman who murdered nine black people at a church in Charleston.

According to the Everett Herald, Reed wrote on social media that he wanted to kill up to 30 Jews. He told police that a Jewish person had caused him to lose his job, but that the social media posts were written from the perspective of a fictional character.