ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — An Indiana man has been charged in federal court with making a threat across state lines related to a lockdown and shooting at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland last week, the U.S. attorney’s office in Indiana said Tuesday.

Jackson Fleming, 23, was arrested Friday on suspicion of sending an online threat through a social media application concerning the academy, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana said in a news release. Fleming, of Chesterton, Indiana, was charged with one count of transmitting a threat in interstate communication, the release said.

Jonathan Bodi, Fleming’s attorney, wrote in an email that “we intend to fight these charges in court vigorously.”

“No one, including Jack, should be judged by a mere accusation from the g

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