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Posted By admin on June 15, 2024

ATTLEBORO A change of plea hearing for a Millis man arrested in January for allegedly leaving a hate-filled, threatening message on voicemail at the Agudas Achim synagogue has been postponed to Aug. 13.

John Reardon, 59, was scheduled to appear Wednesday for the hearing in U.S. District Court in Boston but his lawyer asked that it be postponed.

The public defender representing Reardon said she has been on medical leave since May and needed more time time to discuss a disposition with prosecutors and obtain medical documents, according to a court filing.

No plea agreement has been reached in the case, according to a joint motion filed by both sides.

Reardon was arrested Jan. 25 in Wrentham hours after the call to the synagogue and remains free with conditions, including mental health treatment, according to court records.

Reardon faces charges of obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs by threat of force and threat to kill, injure and intimidate by means of fire or explosive, both related to the call to Agudas Achim.

Federal prosecutors also filed a charge of transmitting in interstate and foreign commerce a threat to injure a person. It is related to a second synagogue.

The houses of worship are identified in the charging document as Synagogue 1 and Synagogue 2. The Sun Chronicle confirmed Synagogue 1 is Agudas Achim.

Reardon alleged called Agudas Achim and left a voicemail threatening to bomb the synagogue and kill its children, according to court records.

In a call the same day, the defendant used a telephone to call Synagogue 2, a house of worship located in Massachusetts, and left a voicemail threatening the killing of all Jews and stomping their babies dead into the ground, according to records.

David Linton may be reached at 508-236-0338.

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Hearing postponed for suspect charged in death threats to Attleboro synagogue - The Sun Chronicle

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