A Pasadena woman admitted to having tracked a man and threatening to kill him and his wife, as well as to threaten to bomb an American consulate in Vietnam.
Natalie Nguyen, 39, pleaded guilty on Wednesday at the California central district district court to a chief of harassment and a threat leader by interstate trade to kill another person and to harm and destroy buildings by fire and explosives.
Nguyen has tracked down a man who is identified in court documents like “TH” and his wife from April 2023 to February 2024, in accordance with his advocacy agreement. She sent several emails to the man and threatened to kill him as well as his wife. An email included screenshots of a textual conversation on the payment of a hit man $ 15,000 to kill the woman.
She sent several emails to civil servants – the identity of TH and her wife – in which she threatened to explode a bomb to the American consulate in Ho Chi Minh City and had also tracked down five of her employees, according to the authorities.
In an e-mail in October 2023 imitating the TH, Nguyen wrote to three employees of the government of the American consulate declaring: “I (sic) kills each (explanive) one of you who delayed the delivery of my wife visa.”
In January 2024, this time, the identity of the Thumber of Th, Nguyen sent a message to American officials via an online portal: “The device will be detonated from America Consular in Saigon and San Francisco. You will all be exploded for the new year or after. ”
Thanks to a message in an online portal from the United States Embassy, she also threatened to trigger grenades at the time of the lunar New Year.
Nguyen’s lawyer, Benjamin P. Lechman, said in a statement on Times on Wednesday that “no one was physically injured in this case”.
“This is a case on a person who – at the time of the offense – suffered from very real mental health problems,” he said. “Ms. Nguyen is now working with a talented mental health professional and with today’s advocacy, has taken responsibility for her actions. She simply seeks to put this episode behind her and to move forward with her life in a positive way.
“Mental health difficulties affect a large segment of society and Ms. Nguyen encourages anyone who suffers as if it should request an appropriate treatment as soon as possible,” added Lechman.
Nguyen has been in federal detention since February 2024 and his hearing for determining the sentence is set for June 18. She risks a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison for the harassment count and up to 10 years in federal prison for the number of threats.
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