Called a Cedar Rapids Bank More than 40 times in Two Days
and Made a False Report of a Fire at the Bank
A man who repeatedly threatened a Cedar Rapids bank, its
employees, and other individuals from northern Iowa by telephone and text
messages was sentenced today to six years in federal prison.
Carl William Stuber, IV, age 31, from Aurora, Colorado,
received the prison term after a November 12, 2019 guilty plea to two counts of
transmitting a threatening communication in interstate commerce.
Information from a plea agreement and at sentencing showed
that Stuber called a bank in Cedar Rapids more than forty times over a two-day
period in October 2018. During these
calls, Stuber threatened to “Columbine” the bank, kill employees, and make
false reports to police and fire departments.
Stuber taunted the bank, noting the bank was powerless to stop him as
restraining orders would not work and law enforcement would not extradite him
to Iowa. Finally, Stuber falsely
reported a fire at the bank, causing the Cedar Rapids Fire Department to
respond to the bank. Stuber continued to
make threatening calls to the bank and threatened others by phone, text, and
Facebook message over an eight-month period until his arrest in Colorado in
June 2019 on federal charges.
Stuber was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States
District Court Judge C.J. Williams. In
sentencing Stuber to 72 months’ imprisonment and a fine of $7,500, Judge
Williams noted that Stuber’s threatening communications caused mental and
psychological harm to the bank employees.
Stuber must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the
prison term. There is no parole in the
federal system.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney
Kyndra Lundquist and investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Joint
Terrorism Task Force.
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