Missouri man Jeremy Garnier, who dressed up as Batman villain, sentenced for making terrorist threat
CLAYTON, Mo. — A convicted felon in Missouri accused of livestreaming threats to bomb and kill folks whereas he was dressed up because the Batman villain referred to as The Joker was sentenced Friday to 60 days in jail, with credit score for a number of months served after his arrest.
Jeremy Garnier, 51, of College Metropolis, was sentenced after pleading responsible to a misdemeanor cost of constructing a terrorist menace. Prosecutors decreased the cost from a felony for the March 2020 incident.
Garnier instructed the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he by no means supposed to make a menace and pleaded responsible to the misdemeanor to keep away from many extra months in jail.
“I used to be speaking like The Joker,” Garnier stated Saturday in a phone interview. “I used to be in character. All people knew that it was a joke and that I had no intentions of following by means of with a menace.”
Garnier instructed the Submit-Dispatch he served greater than 20 years in federal and state jail for robbing a credit score union within the Nineteen Eighties and for different felonies, with a purpose to assist his crack behavior. He stated he’s now sober and desires to make use of his platform to lift consciousness concerning the opioid epidemic.
He stated he has realized one other onerous lesson.
“Suppose earlier than you act,” he stated. “Your actions have repercussions. Irrespective of how trivial and joking I believed it was, folks took it significantly.”
