California Man Who Made Bomb Threats Is Found Guilty of Impersonating a Federal Officer

A South Lake Tahoe man who made bomb threats to several locations throughout the United States, then pretended to be a federal agent to check if the threats worked, was found guilty on four counts of impersonating a federal officer July 11. Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento said Anton Andreyevich Iagounov, 38, was convicted after a three-day trial in Sacramento federal court. “The defendant impersonated federal officers and tried multiple times to obtain protected information using fake court documents,” said U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert in a statement July 11. A criminal complaint filed in July 2022 by an FBI agent describes the elaborate and often bizarre schemes Mr. Iagounov employed starting in late 2021....