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| Ala. Inmate Gets 13 Years for Anthrax Hoax |
| By Associated Press/ The Mobile Register |
| Published: 01/03/2003 |
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Michael Patrick Hanks was sentenced to 13 years in prison last week for mailing a threatening letter laced with phony anthrax to a federal judge in Mobile in March. Hanks, 50, sent the letter from the Mobile County Jail, using powdered shaving cream purchased at the jail commissary as the bogus anthrax. Hanks may not get a chance to serve the new 13-year sentence. He still has 45 years to serve on a 55-year sentence in Mississippi for sexual assault. He also faces up to a life sentence in Alabama after pleading guilty last month to charges stemming from a two-state crime spree in the fall of 2001. Officials closed the federal courthouse for a day-and-a-half last spring after a judge's secretary opened an envelope from Hanks, and white powder fell out. Hanks later admitted in court documents to sending threatening letters to three federal judges in Mobile, using powdered shaving cream purchased at Mobile County Metro Jail commissary. |
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