10/10/2009 by BNO News
DENVER (BNO NEWS) – A Colorado citizen was sentenced to sixteen months in federal prison for threatening the President of the United States in an e-mail to the Secret Service, prosecutors said on Friday.
Nathan Daniel Larson, 29, of Boulder was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip Brimmer for threatening to take the life of, and to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States.
Nathan Daniel Larson was first indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on December 15 of last year and pled guilty before Judge Brimmer on May 14.
According to the stipulated facts contained in his plea agreement, on December 11, Larson sent an email to the Secret Service, stating that, “I am writing to inform you that in the near future, I will kill the President of the United States of America.” A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado, Jeff Dorschner, said it was not clear if he meant President Bush, who was still in office at the time, or President Obama who was sworn in the next month.
Larson’s e-mail also laid out the reasons as to why he intended to kill the President, and how he intended to carry out the assassination. When questioned by Secret Service agents, Larson confirmed he was serious about his plans to kill the President and said he would carry them out.
The e-mail was sent from his home in Boulder. Prosecutors do not believe that he had taken any action to carry out or effectuate the actions threatened by in the e-mail.
After serving his prison sentence, Larson will serve 3 years of supervised release. The case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service and Larson was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kurt Bohn.
“A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado, Jeff Dorschner, said it was not clear if he meant President Bush, who was still in office at the time, or President Obama who was sworn in the next month.”
Best explanation so far.
It’s great to be able to count on folks here at Free Republic to keep us all well-informed and doing the job that most of the national news organizations do not do because they are too busy playing mind games.
This guy identifies as Libertarian. As I’ve pointed out before, I do not think it is fair to attribute his deranged proclivities to any political affiliations: Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or other. The liberals do a good enough job on their own to discredit the worthiness of their political views.