Man Pleads Guilty to Presidential Threats
Posted/updated on: December 21, 2012 at 2:29 am
BEAUMONT — A Northeast Texas man has pleaded guilty to making threats against the President of the United States. Joseph Scott Sword, 26, of Cooper, pleaded guilty Wednesday when he appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith F. Giblin in Beaumont. He faces up to five years in federal prison at sentencing. A sentencing date has not been set.
According to federal prosecutors, Sword, who was incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), Stiles Unit, located in Jefferson County, Texas, wrote a letter threatening the President and First Family. Sword stated that he was a member of a violent street gang called the Black P Stone and that he had men on the street watching the President and his family.
