- A man in Connecticut was charged with 2nd-degree threatening for tweets toward the state's governor.
- Jonathan Wright told police he believed the governor was putting COVID-19 patients in nursing homes, according to an arrest warrant.
- Wright is next expected in court on November 29, according to local reports.
A man in Connecticut was charged after threatening to kill Gov. Ned Lamont over a conspiracy theory that nursing homes were taking in COVID-19 patients to make people sick.
Jonathan Wright, a 41-year-old man from New London County, was arrested and charged on Nov. 15 by the Connecticut State Police, according to the Stratford Daily Voice. Wright was charged with second degree threatening and posted a $30,000 bond, according to the report.
Wright was accused of sending several threatening tweets to the governor from October 20 to October 23, according to an arrest warrant reviewed by Insider. Wright's threats were related to a conspiracy theory that people who tested positive for COVID-19 were being placed into nursing homes in Connecticut, the warrant says.
"President Trump knows what you did to the elderly Covid patients that were sent to nursing homes," Wright wrote in a tweet dated October 23, the affidavit alleges. "All is known and you will meet your maker courtest of a noose and a trap door. Treason=DEATH."
Insider's attempts to reach Wright and to determine if an attorney is representing him were unsuccessful on Tuesday.
According to the arrest warrant, Wright told investigators he "didn't mean anything threatening when he wrote the "tweet," when police interviewed him at his home on October 28.
The warrant alleges that Wright posted threatening tweets toward Lamont because "he had heard that government leaders had been putting COVID patients into nursing homes getting elderly people sick."
"Wright was angry about that and he said that leaders should be held accountable just like we are if that is true," the warrant says.
The document also says that Wright indicated on a written statement to police that he believed form New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned over "his handling of COVID patients." Cuomo, who was facing impeachment, resigned in August after a state attorney general's investigation found that he sexually harassed 11 women.
Wright wrote in his statement that he believed since former Gov. Cuomo was guilty of sending COVID-19 patients to nursing homes, he thought Gov. Lamont, "could be guilty of it too," the warrant says. According to the document, Wright wrote that he thought nursing homes "make money off the elderly dying of COVID" and "people were labeled as COVID deaths but actually are not" in nursing homes.
Wright is next expected to appear in Connecticut Superior Court on November 29, according to the Daily Voice.