ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Coon Rapids, Minnesota man has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for threatening a U.S. Senator.
Brendon Daugherty, 35, pleaded guilty in November 2022 to making interstate threats to injure a person.
According to court documents, in June 2022, Daugherty left two voicemail messages on the field office telephone of an unnamed U.S. Senator located outside the state of Minnesota. Both messages contained threats of violence directed at the senator.
In the first message, Daugherty said, “you and the Republican Party should be proud that you’re pushing me to become a domestic terrorist. Have a nice [expletive] day; can’t wait to kill ya.”
In his second message, Daugherty said, “I also just wanted to note, thank God the Republican Party is against gun control laws because it would keep guns out of the hands of a person that was disabled and volatile like I am, but you guys are totally against that. So, I may actually get to carry out my nefarious goals.”
The messages were retrieved by the senator’s staff and reported to U.S. Capitol Police.
Daugherty was sentenced in U.S. District Court before Judge Eric C. Tostrud. In handing down the sentence, Tostrud said threats directed at elected officials pose a “pernicious threat to our democratic institutions.”
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