Alleged Web threats spark man's arrest
By Kelly K. Serrano
Reporter-Herald Staff Writer
"Federal authorities arrested Loveland resident Cameron Moore on Feb. 14 on charges that he threatened two California residents via e-mail and Web site postings.
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested 44-year-old Moore, a manufacturing engineer at Agilent Technologies Inc.'s Loveland site, for allegedly sending threatening e-mails and posting threats on the Web site of Santa Clara County, Calif., residents Michelangelo Delfino and Mary Day. The threats were made between mid-April and late July of last year.
Moore was booked at the Larimer County Detention Center, and he was released Tuesday after appearing before a federal judge in Denver and posting a $10,000 unsecured bond.
According to the FBI affidavit for the case, agents traced Yahoo! screen names used to send the e-mails back to Moore's work computer.
The e-mails included sexual vulgarities, hints on the types of weapons the individual would use to hurt Delfino and Day, and the claim that someone would visit the victims and hurt them, the affidavit said.
One posting said, "That Mikey is going to DIE real soon. I heard he pissed off the wrong people. Expected for a LOSER."
Delfino and Day told investigators that they believe the threats are related to a civil lawsuit against them by their former employer, Varian Medical Systems, over First Amendment rights issues. Delfino and Day have posted their views about the company on the Internet through their personal Web site or through postings at a Yahoo! message board titled "VAR," according to the affidavit.
Delfino said he believes Moore is associated with the relative of a Varian official.
The affidavit said FBI agents interviewed Moore in August, at which time he admitted he owned the screen names under which the e-mails were sent and to writing the threatening e-mails and postings.
Moore allegedly told the agents he had no intention of carrying out the threats and was remorseful, and later faxed a letter, dated Aug. 6, reiterating his guilt and saying he would not post more messages, the affidavit said.
However, Delfino and Day later made more complaints that they had received more threatening messages through postings, according to the affidavit.
Jean Mooney, public affairs manager for Agilent's Loveland site, said the company has cooperated fully with authorities and it was understood that when the FBI contacted officials in August, that the matter had been resolved.
The company learned last week of Moore's arrest but cannot provide further information, she said."
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