By Danny Fenster
ticklethewire.com
A Baltimore County man was sentenced to eight years on Tuesday for threatening to kill an ATF task force officer, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore said. After prison, Allen Shepperd, 38, will be on supervised release for three years.
According to Shepperd’s plea agreement, the Baltimore County Police Department and ATF identified Shepperd as a primary suspect in the arson of a horse barn that had burned down in Monkton, Md. on Aug. 26, 2010.
On March 8, 2011, a Baltimore County detective and an ATF Task Force officer went to the Baltimore County Detention Center where Shepperd had been detained to serve a state indictment on Shepperd, charging him with arson, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Shepperd became very agitated and said he would shoot the ATF task force officer in the head, and when he got out of jail he would meet the officer at restaurant and neither of them would come out alive.
Shepperd held his hand up, imitating a pistol, and pointed it directly at the ATF officer.
Investigators also had recordings of Shepperd telling an individual and his father in which he repeated the threats, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
