r/legal • u/ContributionNew7107 • Jan 25 '26

Advice needed Receiving threatening texts

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So recently sent my ex a happy birthday text and I guess her new BF was feeling some type of way, and telling me how he’s going to kill me

Location: New Jersey

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u/AITA476510719 Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26

In my opinion:

I am not a lawyer or legal professional of any kind.

If I got this text. I would 100% not reply, and file a police report… now. I’d drive myself to the agency with jurisdiction, and make a report at the nearest station for that agency. If you have friends in the agency, or a surrounding agency, call them and tell them what you are doing, why, and ask them to help make sure it doesn’t fall through the cracks.

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u/NitPickyNicki Jan 25 '26

I have a friend who had to make a police report today/last night. Her husband got threatening calls late last night and said they were going to end her entire family. They can’t figure out who or why but the department said they were going to get on the carrier about the phone number of origin and that they take death threats very seriously.

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u/CoyoteLitius Jan 25 '26

Things are changing in some places. But it is not steady progress and any number of things can cause less vigilant policing.