A federal judge on Monday told a rapist his "horrific" childhood was no excuse for sending death threats via fake anthrax to law enforcers including the FBI while behind bars in a Morgan County, Tenn., prison.
Senior U.S. District Judge Leon Jordan ordered Waford Knight Bryant, 31, to serve 30 months in a federal prison on domestic terrorism charges. That sentence, Jordan ruled, will be tacked onto the end of a 25-year state prison term Bryant is serving for raping, kidnapping and trying to kill a Tennessee Tech student who didn't even know him.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Bart Slabbekorn said, at a sentencing hearing Monday in U.S. District Court, Bryant sent 11 letters containing a white powder he claimed was anthrax to the FBI, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Department of Homeland Security, a state prosecutor in Putnam County, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Middle Tennessee, and an unidentified "executive assistant" in Nashville in October 2015.
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