Hyde Park man who is charged with using Facebook to threaten to kill and carve up mixed-race couple ordered kept behind bars to await trial

A national magistrate justice contiguous denied, again, a petition by a Hyde Park antheral that helium beryllium allowed to enactment astatine home, distant from the Internet and connected an ankle bracelet portion helium awaits proceedings connected charges helium threatened much than conscionable death against a mixed-race mates with whom helium got into a substance warfare with connected Facebook.

Stephen DeBerardinis, 45, faces 1 number of transmitting successful interstate commerce threats to injure a person, 1 number of tampering with a witnesser and unfortunate by intimidation, threats, and corrupt persuasion and 1 number of tampering with a witnesser and unfortunate by harassment. He has been held astatine the Plymouth County House of Correction since his apprehension successful September.

DeBerardinis was a salient subordinate successful a "Back the Blue" rally successful beforehand of the West Roxbury constabulary presumption successful September, astatine which constabulary had to propulsion him retired of a brawl with protesters aft helium tried to punch immoderate of them. He responded to Universal Hub sum of the event, which included 2 photos of him, with email threats to "COME FOR YOU HARD HAHAHAHAHAHA."

At a proceeding today, his attorney, Jessica Thrall, asked US District Court Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler to merchandise him connected bail with conditions that would see helium unrecorded with his parent successful Hyde Park, helium not beryllium allowed entree to the Internet and that helium deterioration a GPS device. Thrall said DeBernardinis is truly a loving household antheral who conscionable wants to beryllium location successful clip for his son's archetypal day successful 2 days.

She said the information that thing happened betwixt the clip helium allegedly made the threats against the mates - which helium denies - and the 8 months until his indictment proves he's not going to bash thing but amusement up successful court. She pointed to letters of enactment from members of instrumentality enforcement that he's fundamentally a bully antheral and not a menace to the community.

But adjunct US Attorney Scott Garland said simply letting him instrumentality to the household location would conscionable fto him repetition his past behaviour - marque threats against radical and past turn much outraged astatine them, particularly if helium learns they've reported him to police. He said that DeBarardinis has had 13 abuse-prevention orders issued against him implicit the past 20 years - and that he's been convicted of violating 6 of them, erstwhile successful an incidental involving a household member.

Even if helium had nary machine of his own, he'd inactive person a telephone - and entree to the computers and different devices of different radical successful the location and visitors, connected which helium could commencement threatening radical again, Garland said.

"He;s shown implicit and implicit again that these benignant of conditions are things helium does not obey," Garland said.

Bowler pointed to that arsenic her main crushed for keeping him locked up successful the Plymouth County House of Correction.

"I don't deliberation I person seen a grounds with 13 abuse-prevention orders and astatine slightest 6 violations," Bowler said.

"The behaviour successful this lawsuit is serious," she said, uncovering DeBerardnis "a information to the community." She added that portion she does not deliberation DeBeradinis would simply fly the state, she is besides not definite helium would amusement up for each of his tribunal appearances.

Innocent, etc.