ST. LOUIS, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A man who wrote a letter threatening President Obama from a Missouri prison must spend an additional 30 months behind bars, a judge says.
U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey said Josh McCallum will begin the federal sentence after he completes his state time, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. McCallum, sentenced to a total of 17 years for burglary and a weapons charge, is scheduled for release in Missouri in 2018.
McCallum, 33, pleaded guilty to the federal charge in May, admitting he sent the threatening letter in 2009 from the Northeast Correctional Center.
"The president needs to be shot for (obscenity) our country around like he has," McCallum was quoted as saying in his indictment. "If I was out there I would do it myself or at least try to."
He did not make any statement at his sentencing Tuesday. Felicia Jones, McCallum's lawyer, described the letter as a "misguided" effort to get attention for his state convictions.
The judge's sentence is at the low end of the range suggested by federal guidelines.
