Court told of death threats

Woman ‘got angry’ after Sandy Hook

A woman accused of sending death threats to the father of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting told investigators she was motivated by anger after browsing websites that promote false conspiracy theoing prosecutors said.

At a hearing Monday in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Lucy Richards, 57, of Brandon, pleaded not guilty to four charges of sending threats.

Richards used a walker and wore furry black house slippers, black pants and a flowery top in court. The former waitress, who said she has been unemployed since 2004, spoke in a soft voice and told the judge she is receiving Social Security disability assistance.

Richards was arrested Dec. 7 in the Tampa Bay area where she lives. She was charged with four federal felony counts of transmitting threats to Lenny Pozner, the father of 6-year-old Noah Pozner who died in the 2012 mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. Pozner now lives in Palm Beach County.

After her arrest, Richards told agents she had been “looking at these [web] sites about government hoaxes” and “got angry,” prompting her to send disturbries, messages to one of the shooting victims’ parents, prosecutor Karen Gilbert told the judge.

Richards left three threatening voicemails for Pozner and sent him one emailed message, according to the filed charges.

“You gonna die, death is coming to you real soon,” was one of the voicemail messages left, according to prosecutors. And prosecutors said the emailed message included the words: