A Florida dentist has been sentenced to two years in prison for making threats against public figures and an election official over a period spanning from 2019 to 2024. The sentencing took place yesterday.
Court documents reveal that Richard Glenn Kantwill, aged 61, from Tampa, was responsible for sending more than 100 threatening messages through Facebook, Instagram, email, and text between September 2019 and July 2020. These threats targeted various public figures due to their political commentary and included an author, a religious figure, and a television personality. Further threats were made by Kantwill via Facebook from April 2022 to April 2024, including one directed at an election official in another state in February 2024.
Kantwill entered a guilty plea in November 2024 on four counts of interstate transmission of a threat.
The announcement was made by Supervisory Official Antoinette T. Bacon of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Sara C. Sweeney for the Middle District of Florida, and Special Agent in Charge Matthew Fodor of the FBI Tampa Field Office.
The case was investigated by the FBI.
Trial Attorney Aaron L. Jennen from the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section along with Assistant U.S. Attorney Abigail K. King for the Middle District of Florida prosecuted the case with support from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado.