GRUNDY, Va. — A Buchanan County man who used a social networking website to threaten harm to people at several universities has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Allen Leon Sammons, 28, was sentenced in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon to 48 months of federal incarceration, according to a press release by United States Attorney Julia C. Dudley.
Sammons pleaded guilty in June to five counts of transmitting in interstate commerce a communication threatening to injure the person of another.
For more on this story, and other news, see Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph.
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