TAMPA, Fla. – FBI Special Agents considered an intolerant 60-year-old Florida man’s messages dangerous enough to interview him, ask him to stop, and later get serious about a case when he didn’t listen.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office described the evidence collected against Richard G. Kantwill as “approximately 100 threats and various other disturbing messages” to about 42 victims from August 2019 to July 2020.
Kantwill, a troubled Tampa area dentist, allegedly bragged on Facebook about owning weapons, “enjoying the violence” as a U.S. Army veteran, and about how he “loved creating widows and orphans.”
Three other expletive-laden messages to three different victims have him facing the threat of up to 15 years in federal prison, according to federal prosecutors.
