Joseph Cecil Vandevere faces up to five years in prison for making threats against Qasim Rashid, a former Virginia senate candidate.
A federal court convicted Joseph Cecil Vandevere of threatening to lynch Qasim Rashid, a Muslim man who ran for the Virginia Senate, on Friday. A sentencing date has not yet been set, but Vandevere may go to prison for up to five years and pay a fine of up to $250,000.
Vandevere was ultimately linked to the threatening account via a search for his phone number on Twitter. The DaDUTCHMAN5 account was subsequently shuttered by Twitter. He has also been accused of posting an anti-Semitic threat on the Facebook page of a Florida synagogue. Ramat Shalom Synagogue contacted the FBI after someone posting under the moniker of"Bob Smith" posted a disturbing comment in response to the synagogue's support for Parkland, Florida, after a gunman killed 17 there in February 2018.grinvalds/Getty
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