'I am going to place a bomb in the building:' Woman Allegedly Threatened FBI and Puerto Rico Housing Financing Authority
The woman allegedly sent several threatening letters and emails to the FBI and the Puerto Rico Housing Financing Authority, as well as allegedly made threatening phone calls, according to court documents.
A woman, Zoraida Rivera Martínez, allegedly made several threats to the FBI and the Puerto Rico Housing Financing Authority (AFV) through emails, phone calls, and physical letters, according to court documents obtained by Heavy Weather. When the FBI searched her home last year, they did not find any explosive materials but did find a half-finished handwritten letter containing an alleged threat purporting to be from an individual she had previously accused of housing fraud.
Rivera Martínez was arrested a week after a warrant for her arrest was issued, according to the court docket. She is being charged with mailing threatening communications, and was released on bail shortly after being taken into custody on Tuesday, according to an FBI press release published after Heavy Weather reached out for comment.
However, the details surrounding the three years of alleged threats against the FBI and AFV have not been previously reported.
Between February 2022 and April 2024, the AFV received six letters with allegations of housing fraud, all pertaining to a group of people from Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. Five of these letters allegedly “contained threatening language toward AFV, Victim 1, and the FBI,” according to court documents. These five letters self-identify as being from the individuals from Toa Baja, whom Rivera Martínez had previously called the AFV about and later admitted to the FBI she had issues with. Victim 1, an AFV employee, believed Rivera Martínez was the true author of these letters, the documents say.
