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Boulder Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Threatening to Detonate Bombs at Buckley

U.S. Attorney’s Office October 05, 2009
  • District of Colorado (303) 454-0100

DENVER—David Charles Barton, age 27, of Boulder, Colorado, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to serve 18 months in federal prison for telephoning a bomb threat to Buckley Air Force Base, United States Attorney David Gaouette and FBI Special Agent in Charge James Davis announced. After serving his prison sentence, Barton was ordered to serve six months in a halfway house, and undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Barton, who appeared at the sentencing hearing in custody, was remanded.

David Charles Barton was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on March 11, 2009. He pled guilty before Judge Krieger on June 8, 2009. He was sentenced by Judge Krieger on September 28, 2009.

According to the indictment and subsequent plea agreement, on January 21, 2009, at 11:13 a.m., Barton telephoned the 460th Security Forces Control Center (SFCC), at Buckley Air Force Base, stating that they should contact the Secret Service because he had a hand held, single wire, Kansas trigger, and that all bombs would detonate when he was done torturing. 

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (FBI JTTF), the Boulder Police Department, the Boulder Sheriff’s Office, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI), and Security Forces.

Barton was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Mackey.

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