He told a police department in Monmouth County – prosecutors have not disclosed which one - that a police officer who arrested him nine years earlier, when he was a juvenile, “deserved to get shot,” according to court records. Hafner started making threats in July 2016, the day after he flew from Hawaii to Tokyo, court records say. Attorney Philip Sellinger, the 31-year-old Hafner sought to extort $350,000 from some of his victims. District Court was scheduled to begin today.Īccording to U.S.

He also acknowledged making false bomb threats to an elected officials office, the Monmouth County courthouse, a police department and two law firms.Ī criminal trial in U.S. Eric Hafner, a Toms River medical marijuana advocate who lost a Republican primary for Congress in Hawaii in 2016 and a Democratic primary for Congress in Oregon in 2018, admitted to threatening judges, New Jersey state officials, law enforcement officers, a police department and two law firms between July 2016 and May 2018.

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