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ATLANTA (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to mailing false anthrax threats has been sentenced to serve two years in prison.
Federal prosecutors in Atlanta said in a news release Tuesday that 50-year-old Travis Ball sent threatening letters to the State Bar of Georgia, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Ball was serving a sentence for arson in the Coffee County Correctional Facility in Nicholls when he mailed the letters in April 2016.
The letters contained a granular substance and said, "have some anthrax."
The letter to the state bar threatened to kill all lawyers, while the letter to the Latter-Day Saints Church in Utah threatened to kill Mormons and burn their churches.
When he was sentenced Friday, Ball also was ordered to pay restitution of more than $10,700.
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