Aug. 22 (UPI) — A man who threatened to kill federal judges, U.S. marshals and federal prosecutors via letters he sent from prison, has been sentenced to an additional 20 years behind bars, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
Michael Dean Drew, 51, was sentenced to serve two decades to run consecutively to the term he is currently serving. He had been arrested and sentenced 5 times for sending similar letters to federal judges, assistant U.S. attorneys, and federal law enforcement officers.
“The public officials who work to keep our country safe and uphold the rule of law should not have to fear for their lives or the lives of their families,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a Justice Department statement. “This sentence should make clear that the Justice Department has no tolerance for violence or threats of violence against public servants.”
Officials said Drew mailed a letter in May 2023 to a federal judge in Florida and threatened that the judge would “die a violent death for presiding over a particular criminal case.”…