NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - Authorities say an employee of a Connecticut company that builds submarines for the Navy threatened to ``go full blown genocide'' and kill four co-workers. The Day reports that Edward Lesniak, of Coventry, Rhode Island, had his bond increased to $500,000 at his arraignment Thursday on charges including first-degree threatening. Police say the 39-year-old Lesniak made several threats recently via text message to co-workers at Groton-based General Dynamics Electric Boat. In one, he allegedly wrote ``I'm ready to kill.'' He was arrested at a New York airport when he arrived from Scotland last Saturday. Coventry police seized a .50 caliber rifle, a shotgun and multiple handguns from his home. Lesniak's attorney says the texts were to a friend and ``The question of whether or not it's a true threat is very much at issue.''
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