A 49-year-old Denver man has been sentenced to 40 months in prison after making a threat to kill President Barack Obama.
Patrick James Murray, has been transferred from the Jefferson County Jail to federal custody following his sentence by U.S. District Judge Wiley Y. Daniel on Tuesday.
“As (the) prison sentence demonstrates, threats against any public official, and especially a threat against the President of the United States, are serious crimes,” U.S. Attorney John Walsh said in a news release issued Wednesday.
Murray’s sentence will run consecutively with a seven-year Colorado sentence for a conviction of possession of a weapon and eluding police. He must then serve three years of supervised release, according to the news release from Walsh’s office.
Murray pleaded guilty to a charge of threats against the president on Sept. 3.
He admitted he sent a letter on Feb. 3, 2012, to a U.S. district judge in Denver saying he no longer wished to kill that judge, but instead, that he “now planned to kill the President.”
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