Canfield man charged with threatening U.S. Rep. Johnson

YOUNGSTOWN

A 63-year-old Canfield man has been indicted on one count of making interstate threatening communications, directed at U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson of Poland, R-6th.

James Shuba is accused of making a telephone call in late June from Ohio to the District of Columbia and, upon reaching an employee of Congress, stated in part: “Bill Johnson is a [expletive] and I hate him. I wanna kill him. He wants to end Social Security and Medicare. I hope he dies. He should be dead,” according to the indictment.

The indictment was announced Tuesday by Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.