Wis. Officer Gets Prison for Bomb Threat
Posted on: Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 00:00 CDT
MILWAUKEE - A fired police officer was sentenced Monday to 4 1/2 years in prison for making a bomb threat at a police station and for violating bail.
Jon Bartlett, 34, was convicted of the bomb threat and bail jumping this month. He was accused of making the threat to his former station in December 2005.
"I find you are a ticking time bomb about to explode at any minute," Circuit Judge David Hansher told Bartlett, who also was fined $10,000.
Bartlett was charged with bail jumping because at the time he had been out on bail on charges in a case that that inflamed racial tensions in the city: the beating of a biracial man at a house party in October 2004.
Bartlett and two other white police officers who were accused of beating Frank Jude Jr. have been fired. Bartlett still faces a state battery charge in that case, and federal officials are considering additional charges, but a state jury in April acquitted the three defendants of all other counts.
Bartlett also faces federal charges for trying to buy two guns, prohibited for anyone charged with a felony.
Source: Associated Press/AP Online
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