Sandy Hook denier known for tormenting parents of victims arrested in Florida
A former Infowars contributor who has been known to torment parents of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims has been arrested and charged with unlawfully possessing a Sandy Hook parent’s social security number and other personal identifiable information, according to jail records.
Wolfgang Walter Halbig, 73, of Sorrento, Florida, was arrested shortly after 1:30 p.m. Monday by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
His arrest comes after a complaint was filed by Leonard Pozner, whose 6-year-old son died in the 2012 shooting, according to an affidavit of probable cause. Halbig repeatedly emailed Pozner’s Social Security number, date of birth and other information to hundreds of people, including federal and local law enforcement authorities, and news outlets, the affidavit states.
Since the Sandy Hook massacre, Pozner — who the New York Times says lives in hiding — has been getting “harassing emails and phone calls” from Halbig as part of his conspiracy claims that the children were “crisis actors”, the documents show. Halbig also alleged that Pozner was using a dead woman’s Social Security number illegally, a claim that he tried to report to Connecticut State Police and Connecticut’s Department of Emergency Services.
Connecticut State Police never pursued a case because they found no criminal activity. According to the probable cause affidavit, an attorney for the state’s Emergency Services Department confirmed Halbig’s claim was false.
Halbig, who has spent years claiming that the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 children and six adults dead never happened, has also recently been named in multiple lawsuits against Infowars host Alex Jones, according to the Huffington Post. Jones is reportedly being sued by at least nine Sandy Hook families for claiming that the parents were “crisis actors” and that the shooting never happened.
Halbig was being held on a $5,000 bond for the third-degree felony and has since bonded out of jail, according to Lake County sheriff’s records.
This story was originally published January 27, 2020 at 2:24 PM.
