Panos Anastasiou, 76, was arrested Wednesday at his Spenard home on 22 charges tied to more than 465 messages sent through the court’s public website
A Spenard home, listed in online records as belonging to Panos Anastasiou, on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 in Anchorage. Anastasiou was arrested at the house on Wednesday and accused of sending graphic threats to injure and kill six U.S. Supreme Court justices and some of their family members.
Panos Anastasiou was arrested Wednesday at his Spenard home on 22 charges tied to more than 465 messages sent through the Supreme Court’s public website that “contained violent, racist and homophobic rhetoric coupled with threats of assassination by torture, hanging and firearms,” according to aA sign hanging above the door of a tidy, single-story Spenard home listed in municipal records as belonging to Anastasious on Thursday morning featured an image of a gun and said “I don’t call 911.
Anastasiou began sending concerning messages through the online portal to the Supreme Court in the spring of 2023, according to the federal memorandum filed this week. Supreme Court police reviewed the messages and contacted FBI agents in Anchorage, it said. Documents filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage do not specify which Supreme Court justices Anastasiou targeted. The current court is divided 6-3 ideologically, with six judges considered more conservative and three considered more liberal.The memorandum said he previously sent similar threats to a governor of another state. It did not include specifics about those threats, including which governor or when.
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