Man Receives 87-Month Prison Sentence for Sending Fake Anthrax to President, Other Threats

A Maryland man was sentenced yesterday to more than seven years in prison for sending threatening letters containing a powder to President George W. Bush and a Virginia prosecutor and saying he would blow up a county courthouse (see GSN, Nov. 5).

Jack Thomas Guyer, 25, made all the threats while in prison in September 2002 for making earlier threats by mail, the Charlottesville, Va., Daily Progress reported.

He sent a letter containing baby powder to Bush, while a letter with Kool-Aid went to then-Orange County Commonwealth’s Attorney Timothy Sanner. Guyer also threatened to use explosives on the Louisa County, Va., court administration, the Daily Progress reported.

Guyer pleaded guilty in August in federal court to threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction, threatening to kill the president, mailing threatening communications and mailing a threat to blow up a building. He had faced a maximum possible sentence of life imprisonment, but received 87 months (Liesel Nowak, The Daily Progress, Nov. 23).

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