Eric Lee Boltz

Introduction

Eric Lee Boltz, a 52-year-old man most recently residing in Montana, has pleaded guilty to cyberstalking after leaving a series of threatening, antisemitic voicemails with the office of Hawaii Governor Josh Green in December 2025. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Hawaii, Boltz entered the plea on November 4, 2026, to one count of cyberstalking — and was remanded into custody immediately afterward. He admitted in his plea agreement that he was motivated by Governor Green’s official government position and by his religion. Boltz faces up to five years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and a term of supervised release when Senior U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright sentences him on March 4, 2027.

Background Information

Cyberstalking is the federal charge that covers a campaign of threatening communications delivered electronically or by phone, and it reaches threats made against public officials acting in their official capacity. The statute’s penalty ceiling in Boltz’s case is five years’ imprisonment plus fines and supervised release. The voicemails at issue were left with the office of Governor Josh Green — Hawaii’s chief executive — and according to court records they carried both a personal threat and a religious animus, a combination that shaped the charge and the plea. The case was investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Barbara Eucker.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Pleaded guilty; sentencing pending. Boltz admitted the cyberstalking campaign in his plea, was remanded into custody at the plea hearing, and faces up to five years in prison at his March 4, 2027 sentencing.

According to court records, in December 2025 Boltz left a series of threatening and antisemitic voicemails with Governor Green’s office. Disguising his voice, he threatened to kill the Governor and his family and to sexually assault his daughter. When interviewed by law enforcement, Boltz said he left the voicemails to “shake [Governor Green] up” — an explanation that concedes both the calls and their intent to intimidate.

The plea agreement went further than the voicemails themselves: Boltz admitted that he was motivated to engage in his cyberstalking campaign due to Governor Green’s official government position and religion. That admission converts the episode from a drunk-dialing outburst into a targeted, bias-motivated campaign against a sitting governor, and it is the fact that took the case from an investigation to a federal conviction on the cyberstalking count. The announcement does not describe how investigators traced the voicemails to Boltz or where he was living when he made them.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The plea was announced by United States Attorney Ken Sorenson, whose office highlighted both the remand and the pending sentencing. The consequences landed immediately: Boltz, who had been free until the plea hearing, was taken into custody on the spot — a custody decision that reflects how courts weigh a defendant who threatened a sitting governor’s family. No statement from Boltz’s defense appears in the announcement, and the government’s sentencing position has not yet been filed. The FBI’s investigation produced the case, and the victim’s office — the Governor’s own — has not issued a separate public comment through the charging documents.

Current Status

As of the announcement, Boltz has pleaded guilty to one count of cyberstalking and is in federal custody, remanded following his November 4, 2026 plea. Sentencing is scheduled for March 4, 2027, before Senior Judge J. Michael Seabright, where he faces up to five years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and a term of supervised release. His admissions — the disguised voice, the threats against the Governor’s family, the stated religious and official-capacity motive — are now part of the court record through the plea agreement, and the open questions are the length of his prison term and the conditions of his eventual release.

Impact on Their Career/Life

At 52, Boltz faces up to five years in federal prison for a two-week voicemail campaign aimed at Hawaii’s governor, with a conviction that will permanently record the antisemitic motive he admitted in his plea agreement. The remand at the plea hearing means he will serve whatever term Judge Seabright imposes from inside custody rather than from home in Montana. For public officials, the case is another data point in the post-2021 normalization of threats against officeholders: a governor’s office phone line became the delivery mechanism for a bias-motivated death threat, and the federal cyberstalking statute — not a state harassment charge — is what held the caller accountable.

Sources

• U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Hawaii, “Man Pleads Guilty to Cyberstalking After Sending Repeated Antisemitic Threats to Kill Governor of Hawaii and His Family,” November 4, 2026. source