PORTLAND, Maine — A Lewiston man who spent years in prison for murder has been indicted by a federal grand jury for threatening to kill an official with the Social Security Administration in Baltimore.
Harold Rowe, 54, made his first appearance Thursday in U.S. District Court.
Rowe did not enter a plea to the charge of mailing threatening communications to the deputy commissioner for Budget, Finance,
and Management of the Social Security Administration in September.
U.S. Magistrate Judge John Rich continued the hearing for at least a week, according to court documents.
Rowe was convicted of murder in the December 1982 shooting death Michael G. Moore, 24, of Westbrook in what police described as a drug-related killing.
In the rambling letter with multiple misspellings to the victim that was quoted verbatim in the indictment, Rowe said that he had been released in May 2011 after serving 27 years in prison for murder.
“I am a killer,“ he wrote. “I have been envolved with murder since that time it just not have been cought up with me. So to tell you if you Try or do stop my check each month and give it to Somebody that if you dont stop your issue and send my check to anybody diffent than to who I already am recieveing threw the creidit union I will most likely kill somebody else because I will have nothing else to do.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stacey D. Neumann, who is prosecuting the case, has asked that Rowe be held without bail.
If convicted, Rowe faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
Harold needs segregation. I mean that in the nicest way. His comfort zone is a cell to himself. Too many years in prison have damaged him beyond repair and he was pretty bleeped up going in…
Alrighty then, so to all the liberals who refuse to believe in the death penalty….
what have you to say about this?
It depends on whether or not the guy was actually getting social security. We wouldn’t want to execute some murderer who is “disabled”. We just let him out so he can start collecting.
How about–“He is in prison. He’s going to stay there. No need to murder him.”
I don’t suppose you will be willing to foot the bill for his stay in prison……
Are you thrilled at the prospect of paying for the legal process that would be required to suddenly decide to execute him? (I’m hoping you would be in favor of some legal intervention rather then simply murdering him, but then I don’t actually know you, so…)
I guess we don’t have to worry, we don’t have the death penalty. I bet if it was your daughter he killed you wouldn’t feel that way
Did he kill your daughter? If so, please accept my condolences. It’s hard to tell what people intend by what they write here. It also seems possible that you’re merely being provocative.
I used to favor the death penalty, but have gradually turned against it because of people who were convicted and put on Death Row only to be proved not guilty by DNA tests.
I know Harold, ……….what is that saying about being crazy as a “sh#% house rat,” ya that is him, has killed and if the right factors align, he will again. I hope and pray he remains behind bars for ever!
All i can say is ……….. YIKES !
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Come on BDN why don’t you report a few more PERTAINATE details like how long was he sentenced for murder, was he paroled early or if he was paroled, what were the conditions of his parole???
Lets see now, his victim would be about 52 yrs. old now and is still dead I think, and this convict is out threatening to commit his old favorite crime again.
Am I misssing something or is our Justice system so broken and is BDN blatenly directing their readers away from the obvious flaws of their Liberal agenda and failings of our Justice system?