A 47-year-old Tempe man has been arrested on a complaint alleging he threatened to execute a Scottsdale rabbi and “every other JEW I can find tonight at midnight of your Sabbath,” authorities said.

The FBI arrested Jeffrey Mindock Saturday morning on a federal complaint and arrest warrant, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The complaint alleges Mindock sent an email Nov. 3 to a Scottsdale synagogue asking the rabbi to “try to convince” a judge in Utah to “drop the charges against” him in a state district court case in Utah.

The email stated: “If you do not use your influence to right this wrong I will execute you and every other JEW [sic] I can find tonight at midnight of your Sabbath.

“If you wish to communicate with me further, I will only meet in person.” The email listed an address for the sender in Tempe and was signed “Shalom, Viktor Sitkevicz,” officials said.

Mindock’s address was listed in motor vehicle records as the same Tempe address listed in the email, according to the complaint.

The complaint further alleges that Mindock’s threatening behavior extended to another prior email threat to “hang” a judge sent from email addresses containing “sitkevicz” or “mindock” and another threat made during a previous court appearance in 2021 to “execute” others.

Chad Alvarado, acting special agent in charged of the FBI’s Phoenix field office, said the agency “takes all threats of violence seriously.

“The FBI and our law enforcement partners must take people who make threats at their word and intervene, because protecting human life is our absolute priority.”

“Civic engagement and civil dialogue help bind us together as a nation,”  U.S. Attorney Gary Restaino said.

“We have no tolerance for those who send threatening communications to Jewish faith leaders or to any other people in America. We will continue to exercise our prosecutorial discretion and deploy our resources to charge threats cases here in Arizona.”

Authorities have up to 30 days from Mindock’s Nov. 4 arrest to seek an indictment.

The FBI conducted the investigation with assistance from the Tempe Police Department and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. The United States Attorney’s Office, District of Arizona, is handling the prosecution.