625-Pound Michigan Man Sentenced To Prison In Fake Bomb Threat Case
GRAND RAPIDS (AP) - A 625-pound western Michigan man has been sentenced to at least a year-and-a-half in prison for a fake bomb threat.
The Grand Rapids Press reports a Kent County judge on Friday ordered 44-year-old Jeffery Klein to spend between 18 months and four years in prison. He pleaded guilty via video from jail this month to making a 2012 bomb threat to a mobile home park where he lived.
A judge ruled in September that Klein could plead guilty via the Internet from home because Klein argued he was too large to go to court. Police arrested him Jan. 1 for driving on a suspended license.
Klein urged Circuit Judge Dennis Leiber to free him with time served and probation. The judge says Klein possessed a "sadistic desire for revenge."
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