Chicago man accused of synagogue shooting threat, targeting Israeli official released on bond

A Chicago man accused of threatening to "shoot up a synagogue," targeting an Israeli official and flying to the state where the official's family lived, has been released on bond despite federal prosecutors seeking to keep him detained, officials said.

Timothy Holmes, 31, of Chicago, was arrested Wednesday morning in Florida and is charged with making a threat in interstate commerce to injure a person, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois.

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