I think they tracked them down by getting Smollett's phone records from the phone company. And then they looked into the numbers that were redacted from the phone records Smollett gave them.

Yes, and they might also hope to catch Smollett in perjury.

Yep, sometimes they’re arrested — but often not.

It’s true that woman are rarely charged for falsely accusing a man of rape. But gender is the issue not race.

Yep.

That is my bet. They rolled.

Yup. 18 US Code 876(c) and 1038

If he caused that threat to be mailed he’s in trouble — even though the threat is to himself. This is up to 10 years in fed prison.

Yep, a total of up to 15 years.

Yeah, the way to put him away for a long time is get hon to lie to the Grand Jury.

This is a very high profile case and so they are being veeery careful. They assigned 12 detectives to this case — that’s more than most murders get

Yes, and the only reason to do this is to not use your handwriting ... But the note also has a bunch of handwriting.

The lesson hear is to treat people as individuals and to not reduce them to their race or sexual orientation.

Yeah, they’re going to trap him into committing perjury at the Grand Jury next week.

Right on.

Exactly! And if one of those guys punched him in the face he'd end up with more than a small scratch.

Ahmen!

Yeah. Given his public stance he can't take the fifth. And if he lies -- then the felonies start piling up.

Society is much to easy on women how falsely accuse a person of rape.

He could get 15 years in prison on federal charges for the fake death threat he sent to the Empire set.