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Iowa Man Sentenced for Threatening to Kill President Obama
The man wrote a letter to Obama threatening the president's life.
An Iowa man has been sentenced to two years in prison for writing a letter to the president, threatening to kill him.
Tommy Eugene Krueger, 24, whose only address was listed as "Iowa," wrote the letter in 2010, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
In addition to the two years, U.S. District Judge John A. Jarvey also sentenced Krueger to three years of supervised probation.
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Krueger was in a medical facility at an Iowa prison when he wrote the letter, according to the release. The U.S. Marshal Service in Alabama received the hand-written letter on Dec. 17, 2010.
The news release said Krueger was confronted and admitted to writing the letter.
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