Hitler lover sent messages about exterminating Hispanics. He’s in Miami — federal prison.
A Maryland racist pleaded guilty in Miami federal court Tuesday to sending a Key Biscayne restaurant worker over 150 printed pages of Facebook messages in which he threatened to commit mass murder of Hispanics.
“I will stop at nothing until you, your family, your friends, your entire WORTHLESS LATIN RACE IS RACIALLY EXTERMINATED,” wrote Eric Lin in a June 11, 2019, Facebook message.
That’s one of the many messages referenced as Lin pleaded guilty to one count of interstate transmission of threatening communications. While Lin, 35, awaits sentencing, he’ll continue to reside in the federal prison in downtown Miami.
According to his admission of facts, Lin carpet bombed a woman with all those Facebook messages from the accounts “Jake Howard” and “Eric A Schopenhauer” from May 30, 2019, to Aug. 14, 2019. When she printed out the 150-plus pages of messages and went to the FBI, she said she thought they came from an “Eric Lin” who used to come into the Key Biscayne restaurant where she worked.
“She believed the messages came from Eric Lin because Eric Lin’s statements at the restaurant were similar in content to the Facebook messages sent by the (Howard and Schopenhauer) accounts to the victim,” Lin’s admission of facts states. “In particular, both his statements in the restaurant and the messages from the Target Accounts discussed mass shootings and idolization of Adolf Hitler. “
When investigators looked at the two Facebook accounts Lin operated under the phony names, they found “Lin sent hundreds of messages to the victim via DM and...many of those messages contained threats to kill the victim, the victim’s family members and, generally, all Hispanics.”
The messages tracked back to an AT&T cellphone under Lin’s father’s name. But when detectives called the phone on Aug. 13, they got a man who said he was Eric Lin and stated his date of birth for further confirmation.
Lin was arrested three days later in Seattle.
This story was originally published January 14, 2020 at 6:07 PM.
