A Miami man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for posting online death threats against Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
Jon Christopher Enriquez, 47, pleaded guilty to three counts of transmitting threats through interstate communications. Court records show he published three public posts on X on May 27 threatening to kill Rubio and Noem, who was serving at the time as special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, a U.S.-led security initiative covering the Western Hemisphere.
The posts were made separately over the course of the afternoon and included specific times when the two officials would be executed, the Justice Department said in a press release.
Acting U.S. Attorney Yara Lorenzo Klukas for the Southern District of Florida said threats made online carry real consequences. “These are not harmless words,” she said, adding that her office will work with law enforcement partners to prosecute such threats.
The State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service led the investigation, with help from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Miami police and the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
