JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) — Federal authorities say a failedmayoral candidate who threatened his townspeople on social media has beenconvicted of making a pipe bomb.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Jackson announced Thursdaythat Jonathan Edward White faces up to 10 years in prison.
Prosecutors said Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agentsbegan investigating White after he wrote a Facebook post last August that“a war is coming” and that he’d be going after people he accused ofbeing corrupt. Authorities said White met with undercover agents and gave thema pipe bomb. The Jackson Sun reports that White is a bail bondsman. He got onlya few hundred votes as an also-ran mayoral candidate and was involved in acustody dispute over a child.
