Denver (US): A man who pleaded guilty to
threatening President Barack Obama and the Mall of America in
suburban Minneapolis was sentenced on Saturday to four years of
probation and home detention.
US District Judge Christine Arguello sentenced
21-year-old Timothy Ryan Gutierrez to serve the first 10
months of his probation under house arrest with electronic
monitoring and pay nearly USD 1,500 to Mall of America
security.
Gutierrez pleaded guilty May 4 to a charge of making
threats by e-mail and was released on USD 25,000 unsecured
bond. He could have been sentenced up to 18 months in prison.
In January, he sent two e-mails from his brother`s home
to the FBI`s Washington office, threatening Obama eight days
before the presidential inauguration and saying that he had
planted explosives outside the mall.
Authorities said one of the e-mails threatened, "I`m
going to assassinate the new president of the United States of
America. PS, you have 48 hours to stop it from happening."
The indictment issued earlier this year against
Gutierrez said a second e-mail threatened to blow up the mall
with 18 kilograms of C4 explosive and TNT planted on seven
cars parked outside.
"Good luck thank you and God bless the you know the rest
time is wasting," the e-mail read, according to the
indictment.
Bureau Report
