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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOuRI
EASTERN DIVISION
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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MARIA TERRY,
Defendant.

APR - 9 2019
U.S. DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MO
ST. LOUIS

4: 19CR00279 RWS
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INFORMATION
The United States Attorney charges that:
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INTRODUCTION
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On or about November 7, 2018, defendant MARIA TERRY, using the Twitter

user account "@VVunderVVoman," posted on Twitterthe following "Tweet" or message:
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"@PPact DV Terror~I'm gonna blow Up ALL YOUR FACILITIES AND CUT THE EYES
OUT OF YOUR DOULAS."
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The Tweet was viewable to the public on Twitter and was directed at the user

account "@PPact," which is an account operated by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
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Planned Parenthood is a nationwide healthcare provider that provides

reproductive health. services, among other health services, to patients. .
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Paragraphs 1through3 are hereby incorporated by reference into each and every

count set forth below.

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COUNT I
(Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances)
On or about November 7, 2018, within the Eastern District of Missouri, the defendant,

MARIA TERRY,
by threat of force, intentionally intimidated and interfered with, arid attempted to intimidate and
interfere with, another person associated with Planned Parenthood, because that person was or
had been, and in order to intimidate that person and any other person from, obtaining and
providing reproductive health services, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, § 248(a)(l).

COUNT IT
(Interstate Communications with Intent to Threaten Injury)
On or about November 7, 2018, within the Eastern District of Missouri, the defendant,

MARIA TERRY,
knowingly transmitted in interstate commerce, the above-described message, which contained a
threat to injure employees of Planned Parenthood, With the intent to make a threat and with the
knowledge that the communication would be viewed as a threat, in violation of Title 18, United

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States Code,§ 875(c).

JEFFREY B. JENSEN
United States Attorney

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
EASTERN DIVISION
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI

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I, Jennifer A. Winfield, Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, being duly
sworn, do say that the foregoing information is true as I verily believe.

Subscribed and sworn to before me

this3 r'c:f... day of April 2019.

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