Medford man charged with threatening to burn down black churches, NAACP offices in three states

Jeffrey Smith faces 20 years in federal prison on charges that also include sending letters to residents of a particular street in Somerville that his supervisor, who lived there, was a Level 3 sex offender who should be deported to England, the US Attorney's office in Boston charged today.

Between Sept. 22, 2009 and March 10 of this year, Smith allegedly sent 29 threatening letters to organizations in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and North Carolina, starting with St. Paul AME Church in Cambridge and the NAACP office in Roxbury, which he threatened to burn down because he did "not like African American or minorities in charge as supervisors of my security department at Novartis, nor I like them as president of the United States."

Smith worked for Securitas Security Services, which provided security to Novartis in its Cambridge offices.

In total, Smith sent 29 threatening letters to organizations, the US Attorney's office says, adding that the letters to the Somerville residents were signed "Heyward Dublomi," a variant on a bad journalism prank.

Innocent, etc.