Man charged with threats to Google exec via Twitter
A man accused of threatening a prominent Google executive via Twitter has been arrested and indicted on felony charges by a federal grand jury in San Francisco, court documents show.
Gregory Calvin King, 27, was arrested by the FBI in Texas on Aug. 19 after relocating from Virginia to the San Antonio area, according to media reports in San Antonio.
On Thursday, King was indicted in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, according to court records. Prosecutors said King posted more than 20,000 messages on Twitter between November 2010 and Aug. 19 to an individual they identified only as “M.M.” King’s Twitter account shows the violent, profanity-laced and often bizarre messages and personal attacks were sent to Marissa Mayer, the Google vice president of local, maps and location services. Mayer, 36, of San Francisco, was the company’s first female engineer and has been one of its most highly visible executives.
