Date: 04-14-2017

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Case Number: 4:16-cr-00134-CVE

Judge: Claire Eagan

Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Plaintiff's Attorney: Allen Litchfield and Robert Trent

Defendant's Attorney: William Patrick Widell, Jr.

Description: Tulsa, OK - Man Sentenced to One Year and One Day For Making Death Threats

The United States of American charged Jeffrey Allen Stevens, age 59, of East Lymme, Connecticut,De with:

Count: 1-3 Citation: 18:875C.F Offense Level: 4
18:875(c) - INTERSTATE COMMUNICATIONS WITH INTENT TO INJURE
Count: 4-8 Citation: 18:875C.F Offense Level: 4
18:875(c) - INTERSTATE COMMUNICATIONS WITH INTENT TO INJURE
Count: 9-10 Citation: 18:875C.F Offense Level: 4
18:875(c) - INTERSTATE COMMUNICATIONS WITH INTENT TO INJURE

The Government claimed that the Defendant sent death threats to Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan and other officials after the shooting of Terence Crutcher.

Stevens plead guilty to five of the six counts in January.

Stevens had a history to sending threats to the FBI, Fox News and others.

18 U.S.C. Section 875:

(a) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any demand or request for a ransom or reward for the release of any kidnapped person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

(b) Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

(c) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(d) Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to injure the property or reputation of the addressee or of another or the reputation of a deceased person or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other person of a crime, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to one year and one day in custody and three years of supervised release.

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