United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced that 27-year-old Taylor Ryan Hill of Jacksonville has pleaded guilty to mailing threatening communications. Hill, currently an inmate at Hardee Correctional Institution in Bowling Green, faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
According to court documents, Hill mailed a threatening letter on February 12, 2024, to an Assistant State Attorney in Clay County, Florida, who had previously prosecuted him for violent crimes. The letter contained explicit threats to have the prosecutor, as well as the judge who sentenced him, killed. The letter was signed “Taylor Ryan Hill” and included a return address bearing Hill’s inmate number and the address of Hardee Correctional Institution.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in cooperation with the Office of the State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit. The prosecution is being handled by Assistant United States Attorneys Rachel Lasry and Michael J. Coolican.
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