Alleged PoS threatened to blow up synagogues, kill Jews last week but proved too stupid to not call from a traceable phone

An alleged anti-Semite from Millis was scheduled for arraignment today on federal hate-crime charges for calls he made last week to an Attleboro synagogue and two other Jewish institutions to threaten to rain death on them.

According to the US Attorney's office in Boston, John Reardon, 59, of Millis - a town with its own longstanding Jewish community - called Congregation Agudas Achim in Attleboro Thursday morning and left a voice mail that included:

• "With supporting the killing of innocent little children, that means it's OK to kill your children;"
• "From the river to the sea;"
• "People are going to use your logic against you, you stupid f**ks;"
• "Guess what? We are going to use your logic —if you can kill the Palestinians, we can kill you;"
• "If you can bomb their f**king places of worship we can bomb yours, if you can kill their children we can kill yours;"
• "You people need to stop the f**king genocide;"
• "End the genocide, or it is time to end Israel and all the Jews;"
• "I supported Jewish people though. Not anymore. A matter of fact I think we should kill you(s) all;" and
• "Have a lousy day and oh don't be surprised if there's pig blood on your steps tomorrow."

The US Attorney's office adds that within 10 minutes after leaving that message, he called another area synagogue and "a local Jewish affiliated organization."

According to an affidavit by an FBI agent on the case, a synagogue employee heard the voice mail being left as they were walking into work around 8:45 a.m. and immediately called police.

Officers noted that that voicemail had been left by a person who appeared on the caller ID with the name "Reardon John" and with a specific phone number ending in 4333 ("the 4333 number.")

Officers noted that a person by the name of John Reardon had a recent call for service with the Attleboro Police Department, where he provided police with the 4333 number as his phone number.

Officers confirmed that the 4333 number was registered to a John Reardon.

Investigators from the Attleboro Police Department sought and obtained an arrest warrant for REARDON and placed him under arrest at 1:09pm on January 25, 2024.

The affidavit continues:

I am aware that REARDON is alleged to have previously made threats on at least two prior occasions, and thus he was aware of the implications of making threats to harm people. Specifically, in 2022, REARDON was investigated for leaving a threatening voicemail at a school for K-12 students in Framingham, Massachusetts. He was also charged for making violent threats to employees at a local bank in 2020.

Reardon now faces up to ten years in federal prison if convicted on a charge of using a facility of interstate commerce to threaten a person or place with harm via an explosive.

At a preliminary hearing today in US District Court in Boston, Magistrate Judge Paul Levenson ordered Reardon held until a detention hearing on Wednesday.

Innocent, etc.