Las Cruces, NM (KKOB) – A 33-year old Las Cruces woman has pled guilty in federal court to sending anonymous threatening messages to co-workers through a health clinic’s online scheduling program.
Jovanni Celeste Ortega, sent multiple harassing and threatening messages to her co-workers at Millennium Health and Wellness. The messages threatened physical harm to employees and their family members and included references to victims’ children, vehicles, home addresses, and other personal information including threats of fatal car crashes, shootings, and other acts of violence, causing substantial emotional distress to the victims. The communication happened in September of last year. The FBI was able to determine the messages came from an IP address at her home.
Ortega now faces up to five years in prison at sentencing.
