Texas man arrested for pledging to make Capital One executives ‘question their life choices’ in threatening email over mounting debt

A Texas man was arrested for allegedly making violent threats to Capital One executives in an email to the company complaining about debt.

In a December 12 email to Capital One’s collection agency, Taylor Bullard, 34, claimed he had already paid the $543 he owed and raged at the bank for harassing him about the incorrect debt, according to documents obtained by DailyMail.com .

“Call me before I show up to one of their locations with a machete and gasoline,” Bullard wrote, according to a screenshot of the FBI affidavit email.

‘You ruined my ability to buy a house. I’m 34 with a 100k+ job and it’s time for me to focus on the people and companies that have ruined my ability to live the life I deserve.

“I’m coming after your management team personally. Please call me before I do things that are unforgivable and that make your management team question their life choices. Thank you, Taylor Bullard.”

The affidavit explained that Bullard responded to an email sent by the bank’s collection agency urging him to set up a payment plan to pay off his debt.

FBI agents tracked the IP address of the person who sent the threatening email to Bullard’s home and also subpoenaed his email information from Google, according to the affidavit.

After being arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service on Dec. 20, Bullard agreed to a number of pretrial conditions, court records showed. He will submit to mental health treatment, agree not to possess firearms and controlled substances and agree to have his personal electronic devices monitored by the government.

Court papers also show Bullard will be assigned a public defender, although no one is listed.

Investigators were able to find three other instances in which Bullard allegedly threatened companies he believed had “wronged” him, according to the affidavit.

In 2017, Bullard allegedly sent an email to an unnamed company threatening that he would release anthrax at one of their events or commit suicide in public. The affidavit said he used the same email address he used to threaten Capital One in December.

At the time, the FBI interviewed Bullard, who told agents “he wanted attention, wanted to see the companies sweat and had no intention of hurting himself or others,” according to the affidavit.

According to the affidavit, Bullard left a voicemail with customer service at an unnamed bank in 2022. In it, he allegedly said that he would go to a branch armed with an AK-47, shoot up the drive-through and damage an ATM.

The same year, Bullard allegedly threatened Carvana with messages on X cited in the affidavit and still visible on the social media site.

In the messages the FBI alleged Bullard made, he said Carvana had sold him a defective vehicle, although the company’s name appears in the affidavit. The rant includes hashtags for BLM (Black Lives Matter) and Me Too.

‘@carvana you (sic) me a car with a kk 4 tires filled with slime and an AC system filled with stop leak. I’m going to drive the lemon you sold me through your front door on Friday at i10 in Houston. Be prepared for chaos a**holes,” the post read.

“@Carvana you will know what you did to me whether you want it or not. You cheated on me and sold me a lemon #metoo #blm.

“F***ing call@me or it’s all over for your Houston sales team,” the message continued. “Filled with slime and the stupid front doors, you ignorant bastards.”

Bullard was charged with one count of sending threatening interstate communications and if convicted he could spend up to five years in prison.

He was released on a $25,000 bond and will be tried in Virginia, where Capital One is headquartered.

This comes as corporate America is on high alert after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot outside a hotel in Midtown Manhattan on December 4.

After a days-long manhunt that spanned multiple states, police arrested suspect Luigi Mangione on December 9 at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, a small town nearly 300 miles from New York City.

Mangione, who pleaded not guilty in court Monday to murder, has won public admiration from citizens angry that health care companies like Thompson’s regularly deny their customers’ medical claims.

Authorities have not indicated that they believe Bullard is a copycat of Thompson’s alleged killer.

However, 42-year-old Briana Boston of Florida was accused of threatening BlueCross BlueShield over a denied claim just days after Thompson was killed.

Towards the end of the call, she allegedly told the operator, “Slow down, deny, delay.” You’re next.’

Those same words were found on shell casings at the scene of Thompson’s murder.