Kristin Keeble, a 54-year-old resident of Pageland, South Carolina, has been sentenced to five months in jail followed by three years of supervised release, including six months of home detention. This sentence comes after she pleaded guilty to transmitting a threat to injure another person across state lines.
The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney John A. Sarcone III and Craig L. Tremaroli, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Keeble admitted that on October 26, 2023, she sent four threatening audio messages via Facebook Messenger to a man residing in Catskill, New York. The messages contained profanity and racial slurs. She threatened to hang the victim along with a woman he knew and her children from a tree while claiming association with the Ku Klux Klan. Keeble identified the victim as Black through his Facebook profile photo.
U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III emphasized: “No one should ever receive despicable, hateful threats like this. Those who threaten people over the Internet are going to be prosecuted and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
FBI Special Agent in Charge Craig L. Tremaroli added: “No individual should live in fear because of someone’s intolerance and hatred. Threats of violence, especially borne from hate, will never be tolerated and the FBI remains committed to working with our law enforcement partners hold the perpetrators accountable for their disturbing actions and bring justice to the victims.”
The case was investigated by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Wentworth-Ping.
