A Savannah man who mailed a letter from jail threatening to kill a federal prosecutor was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison.
Kent Allen Crawford pleaded guilty to sending the death threat through the U.S. Postal Service in June 2019, authorities said.
In the letter, which was addressed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Savannah, Crawford reportedly threatened to kill Assistant U.S. Attorney Theodore Hertzberg.
He also wrote that if Hertzberg wasn’t there, he would “kill whichever U.S. Attorney was.”
“It really makes no difference to me,” Crawford’s letter read. “A U.S. Attorney is going to die.”
The 10-year sentence handed down Thursday is the maximum punishment allowed for the charge, prosecutors said in a news release.
It wasn't immediately clear why the letter was written, but it was sent from the Chatham County Jail, the Savannah Morning News reported.
"Crawford has a habit of threatening law enforcement and this sentencing should make it clear to him that the U.S. Government takes those threats very seriously," said Chris Hacker, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta. “He now has ample time to reflect on the decisions he made that led to his lengthy incarceration.”
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