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A Tucson, Arizona man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for sending threatening letters to officers from the Albuquerque Police Department.
Brian Clayton Charles, 52, was sentenced in federal court on five counts of mailing threatening communications to officers from the Albuquerque Police Department. Charles pleaded guilty to these offenses on September 10, 2019.
According to court documents, Charles sent threatening letters to five officers using the United States Postal Service. He sent three letters on September 26, 2016, and additional letters on October 6, 2016, and October 11, 2016.
In his guilty plea, Charles admitted to sending the threatening letters, which contained violent and graphic threats. The letters threatened to ‘cause the city residents to exterminate you vile men with their guns, and I will pile your bodies in mass graves in the city cemetery.’
The case against Charles began with an investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency Office of the Inspector General, who started looking into Charles on October 13, 2015, after he allegedly made threatening communications to EPA Administrator Regina McCarthy at her residence in Massachusetts.
The U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) also initiated an investigation into Charles after he allegedly mailed a letter, postmarked March 24, 2016, to the home address of then Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington D.C., which threatened to harm the Secretary of State.
Charles received 542 days of credit on his sentence for time already served and will not serve any further time in prison. The case was investigated jointly by DSS’s Office of Protective Intelligence Investigations, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Inspector General, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Albuquerque Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jack E. Burkhead, Paul H. Spiers, and Kimberly A. Brawley prosecuted the case.
Key Facts
- State: New Mexico
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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