A New Middletown man was moved this week to a federal prison where he is serving a sentence for making threats directed at the Jewish Community Center in Youngstown.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, James Reardon, 23, is now at the Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Dix, New Jersey, a low security federal correctional institution with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp.

Before the move, Reardon had been in the Mahoning County Jail since August of 2019.

Reardon pleaded guilty to charges of transmitting a threatening communication and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime in May and was sentenced to 41 months in prison.

After being released from prison, Reardon will be on supervised release for five years.

The incident involving Reardon happened in the summer of 2019 after the FBI, Youngstown and New Middletown police investigated and arrested him.

Police began the investigation after Reardon allegedly posted a video on Instagram showing him firing multiple rounds. The caption under the post read "Police identified the Youngstown Jewish Family Community shooter as white nationalist Seamus O'Reardon," leading to his arrest.

Several agencies searched Reardon's mother's home on Eastwood Drive and confiscated two AR-15's, a rifle with a bayonet, an anti-tank gun, and knives.

A 2017 YouTube video and interview from the Charlottesville white supremacist rally in Virginia, shows Reardon answering a question. In the video, Reardon claimed that he is a white nationalist and wants a homeland for white people.

Increased security was added to Jewish sites in the Youngstown area once they were made aware of the threats.