OC man arrested for making threats targeted towards Merriam-Webster's Dictionary

An Orange County antheral was arrested Tuesday aft making a bid of alleged decease threats targeted towards Merriam-Webster dictionary aft the institution opted to alteration the explanation of respective words related to sex identification. 

Rossmoor nonmigratory Jeremy David Hanson, 34, was arrested and charged with 1 number of interstate connection of threats to perpetrate unit - with a imaginable condemnation of up to 5 years successful prison, positive 3 years of supervised merchandise and a good of up to $250,000.

He was released and is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Friday, April 29 successful Springfield, Mass. wherever 1 of Merriam-Webster's respective offices is located. 

The threats are said to person been made aft the institution changed the definitions for the words "girl," "woman" and "female."

As a result, Merriam-Webster closed offices successful some Springfield and New York for 5 days due to the fact that of the threats, which were made successful Oct. 2021. 

The archetypal connection is reported to person been sent connected Oct. 2, erstwhile Hanson sent a connection via the "Contact Us" tab connected the company's website, wherever helium sent a messaging blasting them for changing the explanation of "female."

Merriam-Webster's archetypal explanation of the connection reads as: "of, relating to, oregon being the enactment that typically has the capableness to carnivore young oregon nutrient eggs," portion the 2nd reads: "having a sex individuality that is the other of male."

In response, Hanson's connection said, "It is perfectly sickening that Merriam-Webster present tells blatant lies and promotes anti-science propaganda. There is nary specified happening arsenic `gender identity.' The imbecile who wrote this introduction should beryllium hunted down and shot."

He past sent different connection days aboriginal connected Oct. 8 successful regards to the explanation of "girl."

The archetypal explanation of the connection is: "a pistillate kid from commencement to adulthood," portion the 2nd is: "a idiosyncratic whose sex individuality is female."

Again, Hanson sent an inflammatory connection to the dictionary which read, "The moron who created this fake explanation should beryllium hunted down and shot. I americium sick and bushed of these taste Marxists denying subject and destroying the English Language. Merriam-Webster office should beryllium changeable and bombed. Boys aren't girls."

A national probe revealed that Merriam-Webster isn't the lone recipient of threats made by Hanson, arsenic helium has besides sent a bid of online threats to:

two professors astatine Loyola Marymount University, the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International,Land O Lakes,Hasbro Inc., IGN Entertainment, the President of the University of North Texas,a New York City rabbi.

"Everyone has a close to explicit their opinion, but repeatedly threatening to termination people, arsenic has been alleged, takes it to a caller level," said Special Agent successful Charge of the FBI Boston Division Joseph Bonavolonta.

According to the Orange County Register, Hanson suffers from developmental disorders including autism, arsenic elaborate by his mother, who said that her son, "poses nary menace to the assemblage due to the fact that helium is reclusive, she supervises him and helium has nary entree to weapons."