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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A man accused of threatening Internal Revenue Service employees has accepted a plea deal in U.S. District Court.
David D'Addabbo, 51, pleaded guilty Monday to one charge of threatening a government agent. In exchange for the plea, three other charges of threatening IRS agents were dismissed.
U.S. District Judge Dee Benson sentenced D'Addabbo to the jail time he has already served and he was released Monday from the Weber County Jail, where he had been held for the past five months.
D'Addabbo was expected to be taken directly to the Cache County Jail to begin the process of answering to misdemeanor charges of carrying a concealed weapon, said Deputy Cache County Attorney Tony Baird.
D'Addabbo was arrested in March by Department of Treasury agents as he was leaving a service of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hyrum. He reportedly was found carrying a Glock pistol, 40 rounds of ammunition and a switchblade knife. He is charged with illegally possessing those weapons because a concealed weapons permit he carried had expired, Baird said.
He made threats to the officers as they were driving him from Hyrum to the Weber County Jail, assistant U.S. Attorney Loren Washburn said in court earlier this year.
In September, D'Addabbo also was accused of threatening IRS employees with "death by firing squad" if they attempted to collect income taxes from his wife, Linda. A month later, he allegedly wrote the U.S. Tax Court that anyone attempting to collect taxes would be tried by "a jury of common people. You then could be found guilty of treason and taken immediately to a firing squad."
In court Monday, D'Addabbo acknowledged making the threats to the Department of Treasury agents, and said he would not do that again.
D'Addabbo's attorney, Robert Hunt, said his client was content with the plea bargain because he acknowledged threatening the Treasury agents, but didn't believe his comments to the IRS were threats.
As Benson read D'Addabbo's sentence Monday, he included terms which require him to take an anger management class, stay on his medication, and not possess any firearms.
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