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Criminal

Dec. 6, 2016

Man who planned to kill five U.S. officials sentenced to 20 years

A man convicted of a plotting to kill FBI agents, federal prosecutors and U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford in a scheme involving a wood chipper, was sentenced to serve 20 years on top of an existing 14-year prison term.

By Meghann M. Cuniff
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A man convicted of a plotting to kill five federal officials, including U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford, in a scheme involving a wood chipper, was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.

John Arthur Walthall, 61, is to serve the sentence consecutively with the 14-year sentence he began in 2012 for a wire fraud that victimized an elderly couple, according to th...

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