'Heavily Armed' Man Threatens To Kill MI Jewish Officials: Police

Jack Carpenter III, 41, a resident of Tipton, was charged with transmitting an interstate threat and is being held without bail in a federal court in Detroit, according to the Detroit News. He faces up to five years in prison. Officials said Carpenter was living in Texas last month when he made the threats in a series of tweets indicating he was planning a trip back to Michigan to kill Jewish members of the Michigan government. In a Feb. 17 social media post, officials said Carpenter tweeted that he was...