Probation for Man Who Sent Powder to Trump’s Sons, Others

Probation for Man Who Sent Powder to Trump’s Sons, Others
Daniel Frisiello, of Beverly, Mass., in this booking photo released on March 1, 2018. Beverly Police Department via AP, File
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BOSTON—A Massachusetts man who sent threatening letters with white powder to President Donald Trump’s sons, Antonio Sabato Jr., Sen. Debbie Stabenow, and a law professor was sentenced on April 19 in federal court to five years of probation.

The judge declined to send Daniel Frisiello to prison, as prosecutors had sought, because of concerns the 25-year-old man from Beverly, who is developmentally disabled, would not respond well to incarceration. But he stressed the sentence wasn’t “lenient.”