FRESNO, Calif. — U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill
sentenced Craig Shults, 52, of Huntington Beach, today to six years in prison
for threatening to harm a federal judge, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott
announced.
Shults was convicted of this offense following a December
2018 jury trial.
According to court documents and evidence at trial, in 2016
at a federal prison in Taft, California, Shults, then an inmate, made threats
to assault a federal judge with the intent to retaliate against the judge for
presiding over a prior criminal case involving Shults. He made the threatening
communications in retaliation for, among other reasons, being remanded to
custody following a bond violation hearing, and being sentenced to a
substantially longer prison sentence than Shults requested. Some of Shults’s
threats were captured on a recording device and presented at trial.
This case was the product of an investigation by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S.
Attorneys Angela L. Scott and Henry Z. Carbajal prosecuted the case.
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