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Wisconsin man gets 16½ years in prison

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a Wisconsin man who forged threats against President Donald Trump as part of a deportation scheme to 16½ years in prison. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Kristy Yang sentenced Demetric Scott on Friday. A jury found Scott guilty of felony identity theft, witness intimidation, bail jumping and reckless endangerment in January. According to court documents, Scott was arrested in Milwaukee after he stabbed Mexican immigrant Ramon Morales Reyes. While in jail, Scott wrote letters posing as Morales Reyes to government officials threatening to kill Trump, hoping to get him deported and derail the case. Federal immigration authorities took Morales Reyes into custody, but investigators determined he didn’t write the letters because he can’t write in English.

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