A man suspected of writing racist letters to blacks, including a U.S. Supreme Court Justice a and a major league baseball player pleaded not guilty in federal court Thursday.
David Tuason, 46, is charged with two counts of transmitting threatening interstate communications and six counts of mailing threatening communications. He is being represented by a public defender.
The FBI says Tuason wrote threatening letters over two decades, often targeting black men who were seen with white women. The letters dating back to the late 80s, seemed to stop in the early 90s, but started again later that decade.
FBI agents found Tuason a few months ago when he started sending messages via e-mail instead of U.S. mail, authorities said.
According to the indictment, Tuason sent a letter to the Supreme Court on July 25, 2003, addressed to an associate justice of the court referred to in the indictment as "CT." Clarence Thomas' wife is white.
In the letter, which contained several racially derogatory remarks, the writer threatened to blow up the Supreme Court building, and wrote that "CT" would be "castrated, shot or set on fire ... I want him killed."
Tauson also sent threatening letters to shortstop Derek Jeter.
The judge ordered Tuason held without bond, pending a pretrial hearing for May 6 and a trial date June 2.
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