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Ohio man charged with threatening to shoot Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, illegally stockpiling ammunition

An Ohio man was slammed with criminal charges Friday for threatening New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and stockpiling illegal am...

An Ohio man was slammed with criminal charges Friday for threatening New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and stockpiling illegal ammunition in his home, according to prosecutors.
Federal agents raided Tim Ireland’s Toledo home on Thursday and arrested him after learning he had posted on Facebook that Ocasio-Cortez “should be shot," prosecutors said.
“My employer would load the gun for me,” Ireland posted, according to court records.
During the raid, feds found several rounds of illegal ammunition in Ireland’s home, prosecutors said.
An FBI background check also revealed the 41-year-old had two outstanding warrants on marijuana possession in Georgia and skipping a court hearing in Florida related to a past criminal case, according to prosecutors.
Before Ireland’s arrest, a federal agent had called him and asked about the inflammatory Facebook post about Ocasio-Cortez, according to records.
“Ireland stated he was very proud of that post he made,” the agent wrote in an affidavit.
Ireland also told the agent he “always carries his guns concealed” and that “everyone he knows has guns,” according to the affidavit.
A spokeswoman for Ocasio-Cortez declined to comment.
The 29-year-old Queens-Bronx congresswoman has faced a torrent of violent threats since she took office in January.
Speaking to the Daily News in March, Ocasio-Cortez pointed fingers at right-wing media outlets for stoking hatred against her.
“It’s very clear that when right-wing media starts to heat up, that’s directly correlated to the amount of violent targeted threats we get,” she said at the time. “There’s clearly a correlation between the intensity of Fox News and Breitbart and all those folks and the amount of threats that we get.”

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