DENVER—A Colorado man accused of threatening to kill President Barack Obama and blow up a suburban Minneapolis mall has requested a change-of-plea hearing.
Twenty-year-old Timothy Gutierrez of Cortez had pleaded not guilty in federal court in Durango on Feb 3.
In documents filed Friday, he asks the court to consider a proposed plea agreement in the case, and to vacate his April 6 trial date.
Details on the proposed plea deal were not immediately available. And Gutierrez’s attorney, Brian R. Leedy of Denver, did not return a call or e-mail seeking comment Friday evening.
Gutierrez is charged with sending threatening e-mails from his brother’s home in Cortez to the FBI in Washington, D.C.
Prosecutors allege the first e-mail threatened Obama and the second said C4 explosive would be used to damage or destroy property at the Mall of America.
Gutierrez has said the threats were a prank. He turned himself in Jan. 29 at the FBI’s office in Durango.
U.S. Magistrate Judge David West last month ordered Gutierrez held without bond until the case is resolved.
