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Unemployed internet troll, 38, who lives with his mom accused of threatening anti-neo-Nazi sheriff

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WEAR) — A New Jersey man was arrested at his mother's home after allegedly making an anonymous online threat to kill a Florida sheriff.

Richard Golden, 38, of Monmouth Junction, N.J., is charged with making a written threat to kill or cause injury. He will be extradited to Volusia County, Fla.

Deputies say he made the threat against Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood "due to the sheriff’s recent stand against a neo-Nazi hate group."

“I cannot wait to meet him when he gets off the plane,” Chitwood said, “because one of the first faces he’s going to see welcoming him to the Volusia County Jail, the happiest place on earth, is going to be me.”

According to the sheriff's office, Golden posted the threat in a 4Chan chat on Feb. 22.

In the chat, various users were discussing Sheriff Chitwood’s response to recent hate activity in Volusia County," deputies say in a release. "One anonymous user (later identified as Golden) stated: 'Just shoot Chitwood in the head and he stops being a problem. They have to find a new guy to be the problem. But shooting Chitwood in the head solves an immediate problem permanently. Just shoot Chitwood in the head and murder him.'"

The information was flagged by the Central Florida Intelligence Exchange (CFIX).

When contacted by members of an FBI task force and South Brunswick Police Department officers, Golden’s mother indicated her son stays in his room and is always on the Internet," the release states. "She said he doesn’t work, rarely leaves the house, and is hostile toward law enforcement and the government."

Golden was arrested without incident Monday afternoon by South Brunswick police.

A New Jersey teen was recently arrested and extradited to Santa Rosa County for making swatting calls to Milton High School.

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