On Wednesday, a McLean man was sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty in February to sending threatening messages to a federal officer.
Scott Allen Bolger, 33, was charged with communicating threats in interstate commerce after sending a threatening message to a public official, later identified as former Kennedy Center Director Richard Grenell, via Google Voice on December 23, 2025, according to court filings. Google Voice allows users to send text messages while hiding the sender’s phone number.
The documents revealed Bolger threatening to shoot the official in the head. Before sending the threat, he looked up Grenell’s phone number and contacted him.
Federal detectives investigating the threats visited Bolger’s home and identified themselves as law enforcement officers. Bolger falsely identified himself as “Brian Black” and stated that he knew no one named Scott Bolger.
Bolger admitted in his guilty plea to sending threatening and harassing messages to a second victim who is not a public figure. According to investigators, Bolger has been harassing the victim with various phony identities on X and Proton Mail since at least October 2022.
Bolger also searched for the second victim online until at least November 2025.
Bolger provided the victim private obscene photographs and, at least once, used those images to construct a public profile.
The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in Washington investigated the case.
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