A Needham, Alabama man has been charged by federal prosecutors with making threats to rabbis and imams across the South.

Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker faces a charge of an interstate communications threat after investigators say he made multiple threatening calls and messages to Jewish and Muslim religious leaders.

The threats were made to rabbis in Alabama and Louisiana, an imam in Georgia, a church in North Carolina and more.

According to court documents, agents discovered multiple firearms in Shoemaker’s home as well as a suitcase containing ammunition and papers listing the names, addresses and phone numbers of religious leaders and other prominent figures.

Shoemaker told agents he did not intend to carry out an attack, but engage in “psychological warfare.”

An FBI agent attested that Sh

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