Naugatuck Man Accused Of Making Online Threats Against Republican Party, Public Official: Feds

NAUGATUCK, CT — A Naugatuck man accused of making online threats against members of the Republican Party and a high-ranking public official was arrested Wednesday, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut David Sullivan and P.J. O'Brien, special agent in charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced in a news release.

According to Sullivan and O'Brien, Scott Dyer, 35, of Naugatuck, is accused of posting several threatening comments on YouTube on Oct. 8 and 9, as alleged in court documents.

In one of the comments, which were included in the release, Dyer said he was "prepared to kill Republicans" and had targets in his local community selected, according to Sullivan and O'Brien.

Another comment claimed he had "hundreds of people in an excel spreadsheet with as much info on them" as he could get, according to Sullivan and O'Brien.

Another claimed he would "head to the capitol tomorrow to assassinate" a high-ranking public official who was not named in the release, while another indicated he had been "stockpiling guns, ammo, the precursors for synthesizing explosives," according to Sullivan and O'Brien.

Dyer was arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with making interstate threats, which carries a maximum prison term of five years, Sullivan and O'Brien said.

He appeared before a judge in Bridgeport on Wednesday and was released on a $100,000 bond into home confinement under electronic monitoring, according to Sullivan and O'Brien.