LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas man was sentenced to over a yr in jail after threatening a U.S. federal choose and their household in letters despatched to a Las Vegas courthouse, one in every of which he claimed had anthrax in it, in line with the U.S. Division of Justice.
Senior District Choose John A. Mendez sentenced Hadari Stallworth Wednesday to 18 months in jail adopted by three years of supervised launch for sending a threatening letter to a federal choose and conveying false data and a hoax.
In line with courtroom paperwork, on June 27, 2022, Stallworth mailed a letter to the U.S. District Court docket Clerk in Las Vegas addressed to a district courtroom choose for the District of Nevada. Within the letter, Stallworth wrote that he would, “have my people kill whatever you hold dearly first: pets, kids, grandkids, husband…” and that the folks beneath his management would “kidnap” and “to[r]ture” the district choose.
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Stallworth then mailed one other letter acquired on Sept. 20, 2022, by the USA District Court docket Clerk. The letter mentioned, “This is Anthrax. Now Die Traitors!” and had white powder placed inside. The DOJ said the letter caused “substantial disruption” to workplace proceedings together with inflicting the workplace to shut and folks to be quarantined.
Stallworth beforehand pleaded responsible to 1 rely of mailing threatening communications and one rely of false data and hoaxes.
