Plant City Man Indicted For Making Threats

Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Janye B. Evans (18, Plant City) with interstate transmission of a threat to injure. If convicted, Evans faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. 

According to court records, on July 24, 2024, law enforcement learned that Evans had posted a photograph of himself on social media. The photograph depicted Evans in front of a Hillsborough County high school and contained a caption threatening to injure others. Law enforcement obtained additional photographs from Evans’s account on the social media platform, several of which depicted Evans in possession of what appeared to be firearms.

An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless, and until, proven guilty.