Indian student arrested for threatening students, staff

“I will kill their children and hide their flesh inside of their burger meat,” he wrote in an email

A former University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student of Indian-origin has been arrested for sending out threatening emails to students, staff members and professors at the university.

Arvin Raj Mathur, 32, of Grass Lake in Jackson County, was arrested on Friday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport and he is being temporarily held without bond in St. Clair County Jail and awaiting a detention hearing on Tuesday in a federal court in Detroit.

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Mathur sent some of the emails while he was outside of the US in Copenhagen where he is currently enrolled as a student. He returned to the US last week.

He is accused of threatening nine people, most of them graduate students, staff or professors at the Madison campus. The subject and the content of his emails alarmed the staff at the University.

One of the emails sent to an anthropology professor suggested that two of the other people he had threatened should “sue me right away,” according to court records.

“Otherwise, I will murder their children,” he wrote. “Call the police and a lawyer, otherwise, I will kill their children and hide their flesh inside of their burger meat.”

In another email to an assistant professor in the anthropology department at University of Wisconsin, the subject line read, “We are going to kill your daughters.”

That person told officials that “he found the email disturbing and he was scared for his family’s safety,” according to court records.

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Federal agents arrested Mathur on Friday night as he arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. He is being temporarily held without bond and is charged with interstate or foreign threat to injure.

Authorities say he emailed threats from outside the US to nine residents in Wisconsin.