Inmate Sentenced for Threatening President
Posted/updated on: July 13, 2011 at 2:47 pm
TYLER – A Cherokee County man has been sentenced to federal prison for making threats against the president. Robert Lee Berkley, Jr., 29, of Rusk, was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 14, 2010. He pleaded guilty this February. He was sentenced yesterday to 40 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis.
Federal prosecutors say on June 16, 2010, Berkley, who was in the Hodge Unit of the state prison system, located in Rusk, wrote a letter claiming that upon his release from TDCJ, he planned to travel to Washington, D.C., in order to kill President Barak Obama and the First Family. Berkley confirmed his plan during at least two separate interviews with law enforcement officers.
