22-05-2025
Washington state man locked up without bail for threatening to kill Sheriff Mike Chitwood
A Washington State man who doesn't approve of Sheriff Mike Chitwood's public shaming of children arrested for making threats against schools was arrested after sending a letter saying he was going to kill him, an arrest report shows.
"Do you know what the Internet does with children you expose?" Matthew Moulton, 45, of College Place, Washington, wrote to the sheriff. "They put them in AI and make child porn with them."
Moulton was extradited to Volusia County and booked into the jail on Wednesday on a charge of written threat to kill or do bodily injury. He was locked up on Thursday without bail.
Chitwood was at the airport to greet Moulton on his arrival in Florida in handcuffs.
According to investigators, Moulton sent the threatening letter to Chitwood on March 20.
In his letter, Moulton also accused Chitwood of threatening his First Amendment rights.
"I am going to have to threaten you with death. It's coming," Moulton told Chitwood in the letter. "There is nothing you can do to stop it."
Moulton, who called himself a Patriot, included a YouTube link in the letter that showed a collection of video footage where Chitwood is shown taking a stand against Neo-Nazis, publicly talking about death threats he had received, and threatening parents with perp-walking their children for making bogus school shooting threats.
Volusia County deputies, assisted by the College Place Police Department, located Moulton at his mother's home in Washington, the report said.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Washington State man in jail for threatening to kill Volusia sheriff
