FRESNO, Calif. — Cyrus Dennis Braswell, 57, was sentenced
Monday by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to eight years and one month in
prison for three counts of mailing threatening communications, U.S. Attorney
McGregor W. Scott announced.
On February 13, a federal jury found Braswell guilty of
mailing threats against a federal judge in the District of Alaska who had
sentenced Braswell in 1998. According to court documents and evidence presented
at trial, while an inmate at Mendota Federal Correctional Institute in Fresno
County, Braswell mailed communications to Alaska in which he threatened to
murder the judge after he got out of prison.
This case was the product of an investigation by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Bureau of Prisons.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Laura D. Withers and Kirk E. Sheriff prosecuted the
case.
Braswell currently remains in the custody of the Bureau of
Prisons, and he will serve the new sentence after he completes his original
1998 sentence.
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