A 26-year-old Massachusetts man has been arrested after sending threatening emails to FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, alleging that he would be happy when her face was “blasted off with an assault rifle.” Alden Welch Rummel was incensed by a news article that detailed how Patel ensured Wilkins’ safety, providing him with FBI resources. “Be careful,” Rumal wrote angrily in his threatening mail. Rumal pleaded innocent during the court hearing after his arrest. If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine. In court documents, Alexis Wilkins was not identified as the alleged victim. The indictment against Rumple described him only as an unnamed individual who had a personal relationship with a “highly placed employee in the United States Government.”According to court documents, she was in Arizona when she received the email. “He indicated he was frightened by the threatening email and changed his upcoming travel arrangements as a result,” an FBI agent said in the affidavit.The affidavit said the emails could be easily tracked to Rummel, who told agents at his workplace in Cambridge, Massachusetts that he was “disturbed” by the news article. He denied any intention to harm anyone.Alexis Wilkins and her movement remain under public scrutiny due to her relationship with Kash Patel, which neither of them attempted to hide. Due to the huge age difference, Wilkins was called a ‘honeypot’, an ‘Israeli agent’. While Wilkins, a country music singer and a political commentator, sued social media influencers who spread misinformation about him, Kash Patel faced questions for using FBI resources for his personal trips, including meeting his girlfriend, attending her events, etc. Reports revealed that Patel had also deployed a SWAT team from the agency’s Nashville field office to protect his girlfriend.
