Virginia man charged for threatening former BART cop

A Virginia man is in federal custody after being arrested andcharged this month for making threatening remarks on the Internetagainst former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle and anotherofficer in Virginia, federal court records show.

Jeffrey Weaver, 48, admitted making threatening remarks aboutboth police officers when he was arrested this month, saying he was"angry" when he wrote the comments on www.infowars.com, an FBI agentwrote in a report.

Weaver wrote several messages threatening to kill Mehserle andother officers who have killed people. The threat against theVirginia police officer came after the officer Tased a 17-year-oldboy who died from the electric shock.

Weaver is accused of posting three threats after Mehserle killedOscar Grant III of Hayward on Jan. 1.

In the first post before Mehserle was identified as the officerwho killed Grant, Weaver wrote, "(Expletive) the pigs and if I findout who the pigs is then I will kill the pig who killed him."

The message was posted Jan. 5 in the comments section of anarticle on www.infowars.com describing Grant's killing. Last week,an Alameda County Superior Court judge ordered Mehserle to standtrial in Grant's killing.

Weaver also is accused of writing another message in the samecomments section minutes later. In that message, Weaver is accusedof writing:

"The best pigs are dead (expletive) pigs and if any of youOakland or BART pigs (expletive) are reading this your time iscoming you pigs- (expletive) sooner than you think and this isn't athreat it's a (expletive) promise (expletive)!! I'm curious to knowwhat it looks like up close to see pigs (expletive) get their brainssplattered against a wall."

Two days later, after Mehserle was identified as the officer whokilled Grant, Weaver is accused of posting a third threat andincluding Mehserle's address in the post.

The FBI learned of the threats Jan. 8 when Mehserle's father,Todd, notified the agency's San Francisco bureau that threats to hisson's life had been posted to the Internet and that his address wasalso posted, court records state.

An investigation traced the two messages to Weaver's homecomputer.

Weaver, a former San Francisco resident found guilty severalyears ago for selling marijuana, also was accused of verballythreatening a cable television provider representative after thecompany, Cox Communications, turned off his cable television.