PAGELAND, S.C. — Kristin Keeple, 54, of Pageland, pleaded guilty in federal court after she was accused of harassing a Black man hundreds of miles away and threatening to lynch him.
[ Racist texts target Black residents in Carolinas, across U.S. ]
Keeble used Facebook in October 2023 to send four disturbing audio messages, threatening a man in New York she didn’t know, according to court documents.
The victim’s “publicly accessible Facebook profile contained a photograph “of the victim” who is Black with a white woman,” court documents stated.
The victim “understood the defendant to threaten hanging him, his female friend, and children,” the documents read.
Court documents show Keeble was offered a plea deal on a charge of interstate communication of threat to injure.
She could face a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
In the video at the top of this webpage, how local deputies helped link her to the crime.
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