CLEVELAND — A Florida couple has been sentenced to 46 months in jail after pleading guilty to threatening residents in Northern Ohio, including an FBI agent.
Earlier this week, 32-year-old Akil Larry Joseph, 32 and 31-year-old Alexa Marie Logan, both of Homestead, Florida, were sentenced by by U.S. District Court Judge Donald C. Nugent after pleading guilty to four counts of cyberstalking and one count of interstate communications with intent to extort. According to the Department of Justice, the couple sent numerous threatening communications, via email and telephone, to multiple victims in the Northern District of Ohio, including an FBI agent, with the intent to obtain money from the victims over a period from November 2021-July 2022.
"Over the course of an approximately two-year period, multiple communications sent by the couple, primarily via email, came to contain increasingly harassing and aggressive language, rhetoric, and tone," a release from the Department of Justice reads.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the case, which was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Christopher J. Joyce and Peter E. Daly.
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