Ajit Karn
Washington: According to media reports, a 32-year-old man of Indian origin and a former graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison was arrested in Detroit for threatening nine individuals, including professors from his alma mater, with the intention of hiding their children’s flesh in burger patties.
The Detroit News reported that federal agents arrested Arvin Raj Mathur on Friday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport and he is currently being held without parole.
According to the report, Mathur was in the St. Clair County Detention in Michigan on Sunday following his arrest following his travel from Copenhagen, where he was enrolled at a university.
It was stated that he is currently scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.
According to court documents, Mathur, a former graduate student in the Department of Anthropology, is charged with interstate or foreign threat to injure after authorities claim he emailed threats to nine Wisconsin residents from outside the United States.
Saturday marked his initial appearance in federal court in Detroit.
Authorities said that among the emails was one to an anthropology professor stating that two of the other individuals he had threatened should “sue me immediately.”
“Otherwise, I will slaughter their children. Unless the authorities and an attorney are called, I will murder their children and conceal their flesh in their hamburgers “according to court documents, he added in the email:
Authorities accuse him of sending another email with the subject line “We are going to murder your daughters” to an assistant professor in the anthropology department of a Wisconsin college. According to the report, this individual told authorities that “he found the email disturbing and feared for his family’s protection.”
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Police in Wisconsin obtained Mathur’s Gmail address from a database at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to the report.
According to the investigator, the address matched the one used to send three emails to other victims last month.
His defence attorney, Amanda Bashi, wrote in an email to The Detroit News, “Mr. Mathur is presumed innocent, and we’ll wait for future proceedings to comment further.”
