Fairfield County man sentenced to federal prison for making threats

Image: Department of Justice (D.O.J.)

Image: Department of Justice (D.O.J.)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– A Fairfield County man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to threatening interstate communications.

The Department of Justice says Casey William Degolyer, 48, of Blair, is accused of calling for the execution of public officials, including the need to hang certain public office holders from a rope, killing law enforcement and their families, dragging judges and their family “out of their households” to be “brutalized in the streets,” opposing the government by violence and force, and killing members of certain racial and ethnic groups almost daily on social media.

Investigators say Degolyer targeted both specific public office holders and groups of people based on their jobs or ethnicity.

He wrote that he was “about to go dark and take action”, and those threats continued even after being contacted by law enforcement.

Degolyer has prior convictions for criminal domestic violence, violating an order of protection, violating a restraining order, and unlawful use of a telephone.

When he was arrested, he was found with four firearms and ammunition which he was not allowed to possess under federal law, says the SCDOJ.

Evidence presented in court showed that the FBI received numerous complaints regarding Degolyer’s posts on social media.