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LOGAN, Utah (AP) -- Saying a plea bargain is within reach, federal prosecutors have asked to postpone Monday's trial of a Nibley man accused of threatening Internal Revenue Service employees.
David D'Addabbo, 51, has been held at the Weber County Jail since he was arrested in March outside a Hyrum church house.
He was charged with mailing threatening communications, threatening a federal official and involvement in a corrupt endeavor to obstruct the IRS.
He is accused of threatening IRS employees in September 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."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Loren Washburn told the court last month that D'Addabbo, who years ago had ties to a militia in Arizona, also threatened to "make the (Washington) D.C. sniper incident look like an ant" if a fellow militiaman wasn't released from custody in Colorado.
Washburn filed a motion last week asking U.S. District Judge Dee Benson to issue a continuance of the trial.
"It is the understanding of the government that a negotiated resolution is within reach," he said.
He said the plea bargain could depend on the outcome of a psychiatric evaluation that still is under way.
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Information from: The Herald Journal, http://www.hjnews.com
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