text: Colorado man sentenced for interstate communications threatening to kill New Mexico official, attorney | KRQE News 13
  Posted: Aug 8, 2020 / 03:33 PM MDT / Updated: Aug 10, 2020 / 11:32 AM MDT
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A Colorado man was sentenced earlier this week to 15 months in federal prison for making threats to a New Mexico official. In December, 40-year-old Andrew Graham pleaded guilty in federal court to sending communications threatening to kill an official with the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department as well as an attorney with a private law firm.
  On December 21, 2018, Graham sent an email to the Director of the Financial Services Division, stating in part, "If this continues, I will come down there and start killing people… I will hunt you down and i'll you if you continue to willingly participate in this fraud." On January 2, 2019, Graham left a voicemail with the private law firm. In that message, Graham used particularly graphic language threatening to kill an African-American attorney, to whom he repeatedly referred by a racial slur.
  While the defense requested a sentence involving no incarceration, the prosecution requested a prison sentence based on the graphic, violent nature of the threats and the fact that both victims were trying to help victims of the Desert State fraud recover their stolen money. In addition to 15 months in prison, Graham will also be subject to two years supervised release following his release from prison.