Alaska Man Gets 32 Months for Threatening to Kill Senators

Alaska Man Gets 32 Months for Threatening to Kill Senators
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, leave the chamber after a vote on Capitol Hill in Wash., on May 10, 2017. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo, File
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A rural Alaska man who threatened to assassinate both of Alaska’s U.S. senators in a series of profane messages left at their congressional offices was sentenced Friday to 32 months in prison.

Jay Allen Johnson was also fined $5,000, ordered to serve three years of supervised release after his prison sentence, and is barred by a protective order from contacting U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, their family, and staff members for three years.