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Robert V Ruppert, 53, of Las Vegas was scheduled to be arraigned May 3 He was arrested April 13 and ordered detained pending trial. A federal indictment released Tuesday charges Ruppert with making a threat to the candidate and states he did knowingly and willfully threaten to kill, kidnap and inflict bodily harm upon Senator John Kerry. The e-mail was sent to CNN newsman Wolf Blitzer and the White House, according to court documents. Officials with the Secret Service would not release details of the e-mail. Suffice it to say that the threat contained in the e-mail left no doubt in the agents minds, said a spokesman, Paul Masto. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and Massachusetts senator, was last in Las Vegas on Feb.
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