A 28-year-old Indiana man, David Cherry, has been arrested and charged with felony intimidation after allegedly making violent threats against high-profile individuals, including billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, on the social media platform X.
According to an affidavit filed obtained by the New York Post, Indiana State Police launched an investigation into Cherry after proactive online monitoring detected multiple threatening posts from the account @effective_pawn. The flagged posts, spanning from December 2024 to February 2025, included direct threats such as:
- “I am going to plant a bomb in Elon Musk’s house.”
- “You’re robbing the American people. We will gut you and parade your corpse through the streets.”
- “You’re on the hit list.”
- “We’re gunning you down next, Muskrat.”
Law enforcement officials used digital forensic tools to track Cherry’s cell phone location, leading them to his place of employment at Batteries Plus in Clarksville, Indiana. Detectives from the Indiana State Police (ISP) arrested Cherry at his workplace, where he allegedly admitted to posting the threats but claimed he was simply trying to be “edgy” and provoke reactions online.
As stated on a fundraising page set up for Cherry:
He did nothing more than voice an opinion on social media (shown in photo 2). Something everyone, everywhere does every day, but because his opinion was about a billionaire, the government has decided he is no longer entitled to his First Amendment rights.
At worst, he engaged in Political Hyperbole, which is protected by the Supreme Court. See here: https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/rhetorical-hyperbole/
The media is portraying him as a monster and an unstable villain when he is merely an opinionated man trying to make ends meet for his family.
Upon further questioning at the Indiana State Police Post in Sellersburg, Cherry reaffirmed that he had no real intent to harm anyone, instead stating that he sought online attention.
Investigators also discovered that Cherry operates a business called Red Pawn Dynamics, which sells tactical gear, armor plate carriers, and merchandise with anti-government rhetoric.
A search warrant was subsequently executed at Cherry’s residence.
A search on his residence, authorized by the Harrison County Superior Court, led officers to confiscate a semi-automatic AR-15-style rifle, a handgun, a stockpile of ammunition, and a ballistic vest, according to the press release.
Cherry has been charged with Level 5 felony intimidation, a crime that carries a sentence of one to six years in prison under Indiana law.
He pleaded not guilty and was released from jail after posting a $2,500 bond, according to WAVE.
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