East Texan Sentenced for Presidential Threat
Posted/updated on: July 25, 2011 at 2:20 am
EAST TEXAS — A 29-year-old Rusk man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for threatening President Barack Obama. Robert Lee Berkley Jr. was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison on July 12 by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis. Berkley, who was imprisoned in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice center in Rusk, wrote a letter June 16, 2010, saying he planned to travel to Washington to kill Obama and his family after he was released from prison. Berkley confirmed his plan during at least two interviews with law enforcement officers. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 23.
