MAN WHO THREATENED FEDERAL JUDGE
SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON

KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A California state prison inmate who threatened a federal judge in Kansas was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison.

Robert Milton, 30, was sentenced during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple in the Western District of Missouri. Milton pleaded guilty in May to one count of mailing a threatening communication to a United States judge. An indictment filed in September 2005 accused him of sending a letter to U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil threatening to injure her and others.

The letter contained statements including this one: “I’m only writing you this letter so you’ll know whom is having you and your family executed for crimes against humanity.” The letter also said, “Your family is being sentenced to death as a punitive measure to send a clear message to all federal judges.” The crime is alleged to have occurred Aug. 2, 2005, in Wyandotte County, Kan.

Melgren commended the United States Marshals Service., which investigated the case, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri McCracken, who prosecuted.

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