Inmate Charged With Bomb Threats On Government Offices ‘For The Cause Of The Islamic State’

A former state inmate in Santa Rosa County is charged with threatening to blow up several state and federal agencies, including the Social Security Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Escambia County.

Noah D. Stirn, 24, formerly housed at the Blackwater River Correctional Facility in Milton, was indicted on federal charges related to issuing threatening communications involving explosives and mailing threatening communications to injure others. The charges were announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. Stirn is now in federal custody.

The indictment alleges that in April and May 2019, while incarcerated at Blackwater, Stirn mailed multiple letters to federal and state agencies that threatened the use of explosive devices to harm those in the local buildings. The indictment alleges that Stirn asserted that the attacks were “for the cause of the Islamic State.” It is also alleged that Stirn threatened the use of “C4″ and “car bombs.”

This case resulted from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Marshals Service, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Capitol Police, the Pensacola Police Department, and the Tallahassee Police Department.