A Texas man was arrested for allegedly making violent threats to Capital One executives in an email to the company where he complained about being in debt.
In a December 12 email to Capital One’s collection agency, Taylor Bullard, 34, claimed he had already paid the $543 he owed and raged at the bank for pestering him over the erroneous debt, according to documents obtained by DailyMail.com .
‘Call me before I show up to one of their locations with a machete and gasoline,’ Bullard wrote, according to a screenshot of the email included an FBI affidavit.
‘You have ruined my ability to buy a home. 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.
‘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. Thank you, Taylor Bullard.’
The affidavit explained that Bullard was replying to an email the bank’s collection agency sent that urged him to create a payment plan to resolve his debt.
FBI agents tracked the IP address of the person who sent the threatening email back to Bullard’s home and also subpoenaed his email records from Google, according to the affidavit.
After being arrested by the US Marshals Service on December 20, Bullard agreed to a number of pretrial conditions, court records showed. He will submit to mental health treatments, agree not to possess firearms and prohibited substances and agree to have his personal electronic devices monitored by the government.
This is the profile picture on a social media account the FBI traced to Taylor Bullard, the man they accused of sending an email to Capital One threatening to assassinate their executives
Pictured: The email that Bullard allegedly sent to Capital One’s collection agency
Bullard will be tried in Virginia, where Capital One is headquartered (pictured)
Court papers also indicated that Bullard will have a public defender assigned to him, though no one has been named in the docket.
Investigators were able to find three other instances of Bullard allegedly threatening companies he felt had ‘wronged’ him, according to the affidavit.
In 2017, Bullard allegedly sent an email to an unnamed company threatening that he would release anthrax at one of their events or kill himself in public. The affidavit said he used the same email addressed he used to threaten Capital One in December.
At the time, the FBI interviewed Bullard, who told agents ‘he wanted attention, wanted to see the companies sweat, and did not intend to hurt himself or others,’ according to the affidavit.
In 2022, Bullard left a voicemail with an unnamed bank’s customer service line, per the affidavit. In it, he allegedly said he would go to a branch armed with AK-47 and shoot up the drive through as well as damage an ATM.
The same year, Bullard was said to have threatened Carvana with posts on X that were cited in the affidavit and are still viewable on the social media site.
In the posts the FBI claim Bullard made, he said Carvana sold him a defective vehicle, though the company’s name is redacted in the affidavit. The rant include hashtags for BLM (Black Lives Matter) and Me Too.
Pictured: A series of posts the FBI claimed Bullard made two years ago threatening Carvana
‘@carvana you some (sic) me a car with a kk 4 tires filled with slime and an AC system filled with stop leak. I’m going to drive the lemon you sold me through your front doors in Friday off i10 in Houston. Be ready for chaos a**holes,’ the post read.
‘@Carvana you will know what you did to me whether you fooking want to or not. You r**ed me and sold me a lemon #metoo #blm.
‘F***ing call@me or it’s all@over for your sales team in Houston,’ the post continued. ‘Filled with slime and the fooking front doors you ignorant fooks.’
Bullard was charged with one count of sending threatening interstate communications and if convicted, he could spend up to five years in prison.
He was released on a $25,000 bond and will be tried in Virginia, where Capital One is headquartered.
This comes as corporate America is on high alert after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down on December 4 outside a hotel in Midtown Manhattan.
Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appeared in court for his arraignment hearing on December 23
On December 4, the shooter was captured on surveillance video gunning Thompson down in broad daylight in the middle of Midtown Manhattan
After a dayslong manhunt that spanned multiple states, police arrested suspect Luigi Mangione on Dec. 9 at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, a small town nearly 300 miles away from New York City.
Mangione, who pleaded not guilty to murder charges in court Monday, has received public adoration from citizens who are upset that healthcare companies like the one Thompson ran frequently deny medical claims from their customers.
Authorities haven’t indicated that they believe Bullard is a copycat of Thompson’s alleged killer.
However, 42-year-old Briana Boston of Florida was accused of threatening BlueCross BlueShield over a rejected claim just days after Thompson was murdered.
Towards the end of the call, she allegedly told the operator: ‘Delay, deny, depose. You people are next.’
Those same words were found on the bullet casings at the scene of Thompson’s murder.
