NC Man Indicted for ICE Threats Still Has Case Sealed So Inner City Press Writes In with SDNY Echo

NC Man Indicted for ICE Threats Still Has Case Sealed So Inner City Press Writes In with SDNY Echo by Matthew & Russell Lee, Patreon Substack SDNY COURTHOUSE, May 17 – 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.    In SDNY, a defendant was detained just outside the courthouse on Pearl Street talking about a District Judge who has his case "pushing up daisies." Inner City Press covered the underlying case, and now the threats case, transferred to a Senior Judge in EDNY to avoid conflicts of interest. But that case is entirely unsealed. And US v. Warren? Watch this site. *** Your support means a lot. As little as $5 a month helps keep us going and grants you access to exclusive bonus material on our Patreon page. Click here to become a patron. Feedback: Editorial [at] innercitypress.com Mail: Box 130222, Chinatown Station, NY NY 10013 Other, earlier Inner City Press are listed here, and some are available in the ProQuest service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.  Copyright 2006-2026 Inner City Press, Inc. To request reprint or other permission, e-contact Editorial [at] innercitypress.com