Defendant pardoned Jan. 6 faces new charges for threatening D.C. federal judges

North Carolina man pardoned by president Donald Trump for threatening to “put a bullet” in the then President That of Nancy Pelosi head after arriving in Washington on January 6, 2021, with a car full of weapons and ammunition.

Now Cleveland Meredith faces new federal charges for allegedly threatening to assassinate the federal judges who presided over his criminal cases — and thousands of others — stemming from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Meredith was arrested Monday following an April Facebook post that said, “ALL J6 Federal JUDGES WILL BE EXECUTED.” The arrest was the culmination of a series of other threatening messages on social networks prosecutors say Meredith sent in recent months.

Meredith is the last accused pardoned on January 6 of several face new charges as a result Trump’s pardon . Trump’s The mass pardon of more than 1,000 people charged in the Capitol riot — including hundreds accused of assaulting police officers and dozens charged or convicted of seditious conspiracy — continues to roile Washington.