(MENAFN) Arvin Raj Mathur, a former graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been arrested on charges of threatening students, staff members, and professors at the university. According to court documents, Mathur threatened to kill their children in emails that he sent to some of them before he traveled to the U.S. last week from Copenhagen, where he had been enrolled at a university.
Mathur was arrested on Friday night at Detroit Metropolitan Airport by federal agents and is being held without bond in Michigan's St. Clair County Jail. He is scheduled for a detention hearing on Tuesday. The court records state that Mathur “knowingly transmitted in interstate and foreign commerce communications containing threats to injure other persons.”
Mathur is accused of emailing threats from outside the U.S. to nine Wisconsin residents, most of whom are graduate students, staff, or professors at the Madison campus. Among the emails was one to an anthropology professor, in which Mathur suggested that two of the people he had threatened should "sue me right away," according to authorities.
The former graduate student has been charged with interstate or foreign threat to injure. This incident comes just weeks after a shooting on the Michigan State University campus, where three students were fatally shot and five others were wounded.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has not released a statement regarding Mathur's arrest or the threats made against its staff and students. The incident highlights the potential danger posed by individuals who make threats of violence and the need for institutions to take them seriously and respond appropriately.
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