Wednesday, May 26, 2010
YOUNGSTOWN — A federal prisoner who threatened to kill President Barack Obama and others while an inmate at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center has been sentenced to 6 years and 5 months in prison.
The term will be served consecutively to the 3 years he already had been serving for failure to register as a sex offender.
Phillip C. Clayton, 35, who made vivid threats as to how his intended victims would die, drew the sentence today from U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone in Pittsburgh.
Clayton pleaded guilty last month to mailing threatening letters Jan. 14 and 19 from NOCC on Hubbard Road to the federal court clerk in Youngstown.
The letters contained death threats against the president, the court clerk, a federal judge, the warden and corrections officers at NOCC, the Allegheny County jail warden in Pittsburgh and a Cambria County, Pa., common pleas judge. The threat against Obama was in the Jan. 14 letter.
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