Friday, May 22, 2026

NC Man Indicted for ICE Threats Still Had Case Sealed So Inner City Press Wrote In Now on PACER



NC Man Indicted for ICE Threats Still Had Case Sealed So Inner City Press Wrote In Now on PACER

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, May 18 รข€“ In the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Richard David Warren was arrested and presented on May 7 for mailed threats against ICE officials. He is charged with three counts of threatening to murder a federal official and two counts of mailing a threatening communication. 

  Magistrate Judge James E. Gates on May 7 granted an Oral Motion to Unseal Case.   But ten days later on May 17, when the Indictment is clicked on in PACER, it returns "Sealed documents are no longer available in CM/ECF or via PACER. Please contact the court directly to request access to the document."

   Apparently the indictment was never unsealed, at least not for the public (which is what unsealing means or should mean). 

 Inner City Press on May 17 wrote to the Court and its Chief Judge Richard Ernest Myers II, to whom the case is assigned, asking that the Indictment be belatedly unsealed.  

On May 18 the Clerk of Court called Inner City Press to inform that the Indictment had been unsealed. And sure enough, it was on PACER (while on CourtListener the link still said, "
"Sealed documents are no longer available in CM/ECF or via PACER. Please contact the court directly to request access to the document.")

The threats were to T.L. of DHS, and T.H. of the Executive Office of the President. We aim to have more from the Eastern District of North Carolina, for now thanking its Clerk of Court.

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