Alden Ruml was arrested and indicted on federal charges for allegedly sending a threatening email to FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend.
FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during an interview at the agency headquarters in Washington on Nov. 26, 2025.
A Massachusetts man is facing federal charges after allegedly emailing a threat to Alexis Wilkins, the girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, according to court documents.
Alden Ruml, a resident of Cambridge, was indicted by a federal grand jury earlier this month, according to documents unsealed Thursday, for transmitting a threat in interstate commerce, stemming from an email sent on or around Feb. 28.
The email came from an anonymized address associated with Ruml’s Apple ID, and was sent to a publicly listed address on Wilkins’s website.
“Do you know how happy I’ll be when your [expletive] face is canoed by an assault rifle? [2] Tick tock [expletive]. Watch your back. [emojis]”
Authorities argued the term “canoed” refers to a V-shaped wound to the skull caused by high-velocity impact.
Wilkins received the email while in Arizona. She said the email frightened her and changed her travel plans as a result.
In an affidavit supporting a search warrant application, FBI Special Agent Keith A. Leavitt Jr. connected the anonymized email account to Ruml through Apple records, which showed Ruml’s primary Apple ID had generated 134 anonymized email accounts. Associated devices included an iPhone 17 Pro purchased in September 2025 and other Apple products registered to him.
Investigators with the FBI’s Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force executed a search at Ruml’s residence at 29 Concord Avenue, Apt. 606, in Cambridge. Ruml confirmed sending the email during an interview earlier this month, but denied any intent to harm Wilkins, the affidavit states.
The indictment argues the communication crossed state lines via email, which means the interstate commerce element of the statute applies. If convicted, Ruml faces a penalty of up to five years in prison.
In a November 2025 interview, Patel told The Epoch Times that multiple threats against his girlfriend’s life led the FBI to assign her a protective detail, saying her life was “continuously being threatened.”
“When any individual across any agency head and their respective spouse or partner has a threat to their life, we come in hard. And unfortunately, there are multiple threats against Alexis’s life that have caused us to properly secure her safety, and that is done independently by career FBI agents,” Patel said.
“I don’t have any part in that. They make those decisions. They are the ones doing the security backgrounds and security analysis,” Patel said.
An FBI spokesperson confirmed in a statement at the time that Wilkins received a security detail because hundreds of death threats had been made against her life due to her relationship with Patel.
The Epoch Times reached out to an attorney for Alden Ruml and Patel for comment and did not immediately receive a response.
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