WESTFIELD—A city man faces multiple charges after allegedly threatening police on Facebook and Twitter on several occasions.
Vasiliy Z. Khoyak, 28, was arrested on July 7 and arraigned on July 8 on charges of intimidating police and threatening to commit a crime. He was released on personal recognizance, but ordered to refrain from abuse and to check in with a probation officer.
Court records show that police alleged that after Khoyak received a traffic citation on April 30 which resulted in Khomyak’s right to operate a vehicle to be revoked by Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles on May 6.
Police reported in court records that between May 6 and 7, Khomyak allegedly wrote comments on Westfield Police Department’s Facebook page that included calling police liars and pigs, and that police “love harassing people.” In the comments he also alleged that police have harassed his mother. He reportedly finished the comment saying, “You try that again you will see what will happen.”
Police alleged that they again received a message on their Facebook page by Khomyak after the initial post, but the date was not given. The message, according to court records, reportedly said “Westfield Ma Police (sic) all you do is Lie and Lie and give tickets to people….. (sic) KARMA dont sleep remember (sic).”
Police reportedly viewed this as a possible threat and reportedly sent an email out to other officers reporting the possibility of a threat, according to court record.
Police recorded another alleged incident, this time on Twitter, dated June 12, where Khomyak’s Twitter account had a tweet that reportedly read, “one of this (sic) days FM (sic) westfield Cops gonna die and his family.”
Court records from police alleged that there were several other incidents from May 24 to June 17 that had other threatening or harassing messages on Facebook toward Westfield Police.
Then again, on June 26, police alleged in court records that Khomyak wrote on his own Facebook page, “(expletive) u Westfield cops I f hate u I think one of this days I will kill (officer’s first name) and his F (sic).” Police reportedly inferred the “F” to mean family.
Then later, police reported that on July 5, Khomyak allegedly changed his profile picture to a photo of an “AR-15 type weapon,” according to court records.
Police reported to the court that Khomyak also allegedly had several court appearances between South Carolina and Florida that he had failed to appear for. No other information was available on these cases.
