(CNN) Last year, a Twitter user threatened Muslim lawyer and now Virginia Senate candidate Qasim Rashid with the words "view your destiny" attached to a picture of a lynching.

Now, the man who went by "DaDUTCHMAN5" on the social media platform has been charged with issuing a threat via interstate commerce. The charge against him carries a maximum prison sentence of five years.

In an indictment filed in the US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, the man is identified as Joseph Cecil Vandevere. He turned himself in to the FBI Wednesday morning, according to Lia Bantavani, spokeswoman for the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina.

Court records do not list an attorney for Vandevere.

After receiving the tweet, Rashid wrote to Twitter in March 2018 with a screenshot of the message.

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