Federal agents paid a visit to a Rochester man’s home after deciding that an email he had sent five months earlier may have crossed the line into illegal threat territory.
The man was not home at the time — he was away on vacation — but that did not stop the investigation. A separate Homeland Security Investigations agent located him at the hotel where he was staying, which was hundreds of miles away from his residence.
The email in question had been sent to Todd Lyons, the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Agents wanted to speak with the man about whether the message constituted an unlawful threat.
The man, David Streever, was tracked down even while traveling out of the country. A photo he shared shows him on vacation with his daughter at Moomin World in Finland at the time agents were attempting to contact him.
