Texan jailed after threatening to ‘come after’ Capitol One execs. who ‘ruined’ him: report

A Capitol One customer with a history of threatening corporations that he felt had “wronged” him is facing up to five years in federal prison after he allegedly vowed to assassinate company executives using a machete and gasoline to accomplish his plot, according to media reports.

Taylor Bullard, of Houston, Texas, became wrapped up in a dispute with the bank’s collections agency after the man claimed in a Dec. 12 email that it was wrongly going after him over a debt he said he had already paid, according to a report in the Independent.

“Call me before I show up to one of their locations with a machete and gasoline,” Bullard wrote, according to a screenshot of the email included in the affidavit, according to the report. “You have ruined my ability to buy a home. I’m 34 with a 100k+ job and it’s time I target the people and companies that have ruined my ability to live the life I deserve. I will be coming after your executive team personally. Please call me before I do things that are unforgivable and will make your executive team question their life choices. Thank you, Taylor Bullard”

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Bullard sent the message as an answer to a Capitol One email “urging [him] to create a payment plan to resolve his approximate $543 debt with the company,” the Independent reported.

U.S. Marshals arrested Bullard on Friday in Houston and released him on $25,000 bond, the publication added.

His arrest came after FBI agents traced the threat sender’s IP address back to Bullard’s home. He is facing a single charge of sending threatening interstate communications, which carries a sentence of up to five years in prison, and will be tried in Virginia, where Capital One is headquartered.

The business world has been on high alert since the brutal assassination of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4 stunned the country – and gave rise to a wave of anti-corporation sentiment and the threat of copycat killers. After an intensive nationwide manhunt, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was arrested and charged with Thompson's murder.