Authorities say a former Staten Island woman used her Facebook account to make a death threat against a federal prosecutor who worked on one of her cases. She was angered by the fact that her husband and brother were in prison on criminal charges.
Yasmeya Mehmeti, 37, said she’d like to request that the federal prosecutor and the Staten Island district attorney be fired unless her brother, Pearlie Johnson, was released.
Mehmeti was arrested in Winston-Salem, N.C. on Monday, at a hearing before a federal judge. Records of the Court indicate that her case will be dealt with in Brooklyn and transferred to New York. The charges against her have not been revealed immediately.
On Facebook, she wrote, “I want immediate release for my brother, it’s definitely not a want in all actuality it’s a motherf—–g need! I will go to old ways & habits! Don’t F–K with me! My demands ain’t being met enough yet.”
The posts continued, “I want [JANE DOE 2], [JANE DOE 3] & this corrupted b—h [JANE DOE 1] to lose their jobs or else I will Str8 murder [JANE DOE 1] of the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn… I play Chess with your f—–g heads on the concrete floor in a Staten Island basement some damn where.”
Her threats, which she posted to Facebook on April 10, were ineffective.
Johnson, 36, is still incarcerated in a federal high-security prison in California; he is scheduled to be released in 2031.
According to court records, Johnson was sentenced to 16 years and eight months in prison in 2008 on firearms possession charges by a federal judge in Brooklyn. Johnson requested compassionate release in a handwritten letter to the court earlier this year, claiming that his term had been prolonged after he was found guilty of attacking another jail inmate.
Authorities say Mehmeti threatened the prosecutors on the same day she posted an angry video on Facebook about her husband and brother’s lawyers.
“I want your mother f—–g head motherf—-r, f—–g lawyers piss me off, sell my brother out to the f—–g feds and government,” she wrote about the attorney, known only as John Doe #1.
In 2009, Prosecutors alleged that while her husband and brother were convicted in Brooklyn Federal Court, Mehmeti was also involved in the same drug trafficking operation that her husband eventually ran.
Prosecutors said Mehmeti was the boss of the drug operation that ran out of New Jersey. When she was arrested by law enforcement in New Jersey in 2007, she gave her husband, Enver Mehmeti, command of the crew.
Enver Mehmeti was arrested in Brooklyn in 2009 and pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking.
Yasmeya Mehmeti was recently handed over to the feds after pleading guilty in a North Carolina assault case in which she assaulted a security guard at Duke University.
