Press Release
Brooke County Resident Enters Plea Of Guilty To Mailing Threatening Communications
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of West Virginia
1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003
(304) 234-0100 ● Contact: Chris Zumpetta-Parr, Public Affairs Specialist
WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A 42 yera old Brooke County, West Virginia, resident entered a plea of guilty on January 29, 2013, in United States District Court in Wheeling before Judge Frederick P. Stamp, Jr.
United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced that: JAMES W. RICHARD entered a plea of guilty to “Mailing Threatening Communications.” RICHARD, who was previously convicted in Brooke County Circuit Court of breaking and entering, domestic assault X2 and brandishing a deadly weapon, was incarcerated at the Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Center in Moundsville. On April 16, 2012, while incarcerated, RICHARD deposited and mailed a letter which contained threats to injure individuals involved in his underlying criminal convictions in Brooke County. RICHARD, who is in custody pending sentencing, faces up to 5 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Stephen L. Vogrin and investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service.
Updated January 7, 2015
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