A Pasadena woman has admitted to stalking government employees and threatening to bomb a United States consulate in Vietnam.
Natalie Nguyen, 39, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of stalking and one count of threat by interstate commerce to kill another person and to damage and destroy buildings by fire and explosives, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release.
Nguyen stalked one person prosecutors described only as “T.H.” for nearly a year in 2023 and 2024, at times emailing threats that she would kill T.H. and his wife, including a screenshot of a text conversation about paying a hitman $15,000 to kill T.H.’s wife.
Nguyen also impersonated T.H. and his wife in online correspondences, such as in 2023 when she threatened to bomb the U.S. consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, pretending to be T.H.’s wife.
She also “impersonat[ed] T.H. and us[ed] T.H.’s email account without permission” to threaten three consulate employees that “i wil [sic] kill every [expletive] one of you who has been delaying issuing my wife visa,” prosecutors said.
Impersonating T.H.’s wife, Nguyen “sent a message to U.S. officials through an online portal” in which she said a “device will be detonated at America consular in Saigon and in San Francisco,” the release explained.
“All of you will be exploded for causing my separation with my husband for this last year. Everything will be exploded around new year or after,” Nguyen added in the message purportedly from T.H.’s wife.
Nguyen, who has been in federal custody since February 2024, is scheduled to be sentenced on June 18.
She faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison on the stalking charge and 10 years for the threats charge.
