BOSTON - A Holyoke man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal
court in Boston to threatening to murder a federal law enforcement officer.
Carlos Maldonado, 30, pleaded guilty to threatening to
murder a federal law enforcement officer in retaliation for the federal
officer’s performance of his official duties. U.S. District Court Judge Denise
J. Casper scheduled sentencing for June 19, 2019. Maldonado was charged on
April 26, 2019.
Maldonado is presently serving a 42-month federal sentence,
a compilation of a 30-month sentence as a result of his conviction for cocaine
distribution in 2016, and a consecutive 12-month sentence for his violation of
supervised release conditions related to a prior conviction for distributing
heroin in 2014.
If convicted on the charge of threatening a federal law
enforcement officer, Maldonado faces a sentence of no greater than 10 years in
prison, three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. Sentences are
imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing
Guidelines and other statutory factors.
United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling and Joseph R.
Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Boston Field Division, made the announcement. Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg A.
Friedholm of Lelling’s Worcester Branch Office is prosecuting the case.
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