Jerky seller threatens to attack Capital One execs with machete and gasoline over $543 debt issue

A Texas jerky seller allegedly threatened to show up to a Capital One office with “a machete and gasoline” and “do things that are unforgivable” in a rage at a $543 debt, according to a federal affidavit.Taylor Bullard, 34, allegedly targeted the financial giant years after similar threats against other companies — including one to release anthrax and another to shoot up a company office with an AK-47, according to an FBI affidavit obtained by The Independent.He emailed Capital One’s collection agency on Dec.12 in anger at being chased for a $543 debt that he insisted he had already paid back, the affidavit said.

“Call me before I show up to one of their locations with a machete and gasoline,” Bullard allegedly wrote, according to a screenshot in the affidavit.“I’m 34 with a 100k+ job and it’s time I target the people and companies that have ruined my ability to live the life I deserve,” the email said, saying the debt “ruined my ability to buy a home.”“I will be coming after your executive team personally.Please call me before I do things that are unforgivable and will make your executive team question their life choices,” he allegedly wrote, signing off with his full name.Investigators found at least three other incidents in which Bullard — who sold gourmet beef jerky online — had threatened corporations he believed had “wronged” him, according to the document.In 2017, he told an unnamed company he would “release anthrax at one of their events and/or kill himself in public.” He told the FBI, who investigated the threat, that “he wanted attention, wanted to see the companies sweat, and did not intend to hurt himself or others,” according to the affidavit.Bullard then left a voicemail with a financial company’s customer service number in 2022 threatening to go to one of their branches armed “with an AK-47 and shoot up the drive through [sic], as well as… damage an ATM,” the affidavit states.Later that year he...