A man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for threats he mailed to a judge and a prosecutor while an inmate at the federal prison in Tucson, authorities say.
Charles Morice Gilmore, 52, of Missouri, was sentenced last week by US District Judge Angela M. Martinez to concurrent 10-year prison terms for the threatening mail and six years for influencing a federal official by threat.
Gilmore pleaded guilty in October.
Prosecutors say that between February 2023 and March 2023 Gilmore mailed letters to a federal judge claiming there were bombs in the courthouse that could be remotely detonated.
The letters also contained religious slurs and asserted ties to the Hells Angels and the Ku Klux Klan, according to a news release from the US Attorney's Office in Arizona.
Gilmore also sent a threatening letter to a federal prosecutor who had previously handled one of his cases. Gilmore attached pipe bomb instructions to that letter, the release said.
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Gilmore has a lengthy criminal history. It includes a 10-year federal sentence for mailing threatening communications in 2017; a 10-year sentence for threatening federal officials in 2014; a 90-month sentence in 2013 for mailing threatening communications to a different federal judge; and a 20-year prison sentence for stabbing an inmate in Jefferson City, Missouri in 2018, the release said.
