Tampa dentist gets prison time for threatening public figures, including an election official

(March 5, 2025) Earlier today, the U.S Justice Department announced that a Florida dentist, Richard Glenn Kantwill, 61, of Tampa, was sentenced to two years in prison for threatening public figures, an election official, and others between 2019 and 2024.

From September 2019 to July 2020, Kantwill sent over 100 threats via Facebook and Instagram messages, email, and text to various public figures based on their political commentary. Those communications included threats to an author, a religious figure, and a television personality. Kantwill also sent at least seven additional threats to four public figures via Facebook from April 2022 to April 2024, including a threat to an election official in another state in February 2024.

The victims he threatened included an author, a religious persona and a television personality, the DOJ said.  Some of the messages seemed to include racial slurs, which were redacted. ~ WFLA

Back in November 2024, Kantwill pleaded guilty to four counts of interstate transmission of a threat.  He could have been sentenced to the max, five years in prison for each count.

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(Source: DoJ)
(Cover photo of Richard Glenn Kantwill, Image credit: Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office)

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