TAMPA – Federal authorities on Tuesday arrested a Seminole man in connection with telephone calls made to a Pinellas County Islamic mosque threatening to firebomb it and to kill people there. Martin Alan Schnitzler, 43, is charged with violating a U.S. code that “makes it unlawful for any person to use a telephone or other instrument of interstate or foreign commerce to convey certain actual or false threats,” according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court. Judge Thomas McCoun III released Schnitzler on $10,000 bond, placed him under house arrest with a GPS monitoring device, ordered him to have no contact with Islamic people and to stay at least 1,000 feet...
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