A Maine man accused of threatening to kill the U.S. vice president and law enforcement in 2024 was found competent to proceed to trial.
Thadius Wind, 51, of Eddington, is charged with four felony counts of threatening interstate communication and one count of threat against the vice president in U.S. District Court of Maine in Bangor.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges on Friday morning after he was found competent to stand trial. Wind was first arrested in March 2025 and a psychiatric evaluation was ordered shortly thereafter. He has been in custody since his arrest.
Wind allegedly threatened to kill the U.S. vice president on Oct. 7, 2024, on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Court records do not name the vice president but Kamala Harris was the vice president at the time of the posts.
In other social media posts, Wind also allegedly threatened to kill law enforcement officers who stepped on his porch and also allegedly threatened three other unnamed victims, according to court records.
Wind was originally charged with one count of making threatening interstate communication in 2025. More charges were added in April.
The 2025 arrest came after a year-long FBI investigation into threatening messages Wind allegedly sent on various forms of social media, including threats against Jews, various politicians and judges.
The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to Wind’s property 14 times between January and October 2024. Wind’s behavior was escalating and becoming more erratic and aggressive toward law enforcement, court records said.
Wind has had multiple criminal sentences, one as the result of a 20-hour police standoff in 2021, according to previous reporting. He had engaged police in three standoffs in less than two years as of December 2022. He also had at least one stay at the Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta and court-mandated mental health treatment.
He will represent himself instead of a lawyer, at his own request. Wind is scheduled for a detention hearing on June 1.
