By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
A 21-year-old Texas man man who pleaded guilty in May to sending emails threatening the life of President Obama eight days before the inauguration, will get 10 months of probation under house arrest, the Associated Press reported.
A Denver judge on Friday gave Timothy Ryan Gutierrez the sentence that also included about a $1,500 payment to the security of the Mall of America in Minnesota. His emails. which were sent from Colorado to the FBI in Washington, threatened Obama and said that he had planted bombs outside the mall, AP reported.
He could have gotten up to 18 months in prison.
