The owner of a community newspaper in Oregon is in federal custody in Alabama, accused of making multiple threats of violence in Mobile, including threatening to kidnap, cage and rape a 77-year-old church secretary, according to court records.
Richard David Colvin, a 60-year-old Mobile native, is charged with violating interstate communications.
Federal charging documents against say he is angry, in part, because of the United Methodist Church split.
According to published reports in Oregon, Colvin is the owner of The St. Johns Review, which is circulated in 13 neighborhoods in North Portland and has published a weekly or month print edition for nearly 120 years.
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