Lubbock man arrested for social media comments

Frederick Francis Goltz, 51, is being held at the Lubbock County Detention Center on a federal warrant after being arrested by the FBI on Dec. 20. He is accused of posting a series of threatening messages on social media sites.

According to the criminal complaint, on Nov. 13, the FBI National Threat Operations Center received information that a user called “FreeSpeech-Master” posted a threatening message on Patriots.win, a social media, The complaint then says on Nov. 14, “FreeSpeechMaster” posted, “Hypothetically, a mass shooting of poll workers and election officials in these highly suspect precincts might be the way to go.”

The comment was in response to a post titled, “Surprise, surprise, Nevada’s election monitoring cameras went out overnight on the 10th and then the votes started pouring in for the Democrat to finally take the lead. Any GOPer who refuses to acknowledge the rigging in 2020 and now 2022 needs to be EXCOMMUNICATED.”