An Outer Sunset man who was arrested last year for making threats on Twitter against Acting Police Chief Toney Chaplin has been arrested again, this time for making in-person threats against a neighbor and his family. 60-year-old Donald Eric Hoganson made headlines last July after he was identified as the person behind this Twitter account, where he posted a message showing a photo of a guillotine, a photo of a sign that said "White Trade Only", and a photo of Chaplin, who is African-American, with the message, "Let us behead this black man, please! Praise God Almighty!"
Hoganson is apparently mentally ill, suffering from schizophrenia, and has been known in the neighborhood for posting swastikas, racial slurs, and various handwritten messages in his ground-floor apartment window on the 2600 block of Ortega Street. Last month, as KRON 4 reports, Hoganson was arrested again after making criminal threats against Henry Vega and a family member of his.
According to Vega, Hoganson said, "I guess we will have to kill the both of you and we will take care of you two," and Vega says, "I had to take it seriously. I was pretty upset."
Vega was asked to testify at a criminal hearing, and he says that Hoganson has not been around the neighborhood since his arrest a month ago. "[He's] Possibly going to the state hospital in Napa. I had to testify. I thought I would have to again, but they found him incompetent, so as of now, I don’t have to testify again," Vega tells KRON 4.
As we learned after Hoganson's arrest last July, he's had previous brushes with the law, including a 2002 indictment for allegedly threatening to kill an FBI agent outside the bureau's Sacramento office. That indictment was eventually dismissed after Hoganson was determined to be incompetent to stand trial.
He's lived in the Outer Sunset in this same apartment for six years, but according to police his behavior has grown more erratic over the last year.
One neighbor in his building, a Chinese-American woman, told KRON 4 last year that Hoganson made frequent offensive remarks to her about Chinese people, to which the woman responded "If you don't like Chinese people, why do you live in a Chinese house?"
Hoganson also has a blog, which he has not written on since his arrest last July, where he refers to himself as Bethesda, or Don Bethesda, apparently in reference to the angel who blesses the Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem in the Gospel of John.
Previously: Outer Sunset Man Named As Alleged Twitter Troll Seeking Beheading Of SFPD's Acting Chief