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Marquette Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Mailing Death Threats

U.S. Attorney’s Office October 21, 2009
  • Western District of Michigan (616) 456-2404

MARQUETTE, MI—Thomas Andrew Censke, 43, of Marquette, Michigan, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for mailing threatening letters, U.S. Attorney Donald A. Davis announced today. In addition to the prison term, Senior U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar ordered Censke to serve three years of supervised release following his release from prison and to pay a $400 special assessment.

On July 21, 2009, Censke was convicted of four counts of mailing threatening communications after a three-day jury trial. The jury found that Censke mailed letters from jail and prison between 2003 and 2008 to local attorneys, a police detective, and a county prosecutor threatening to kill the attorneys, the detective, and a county clerk. Censke had been previously convicted in Marquette County of attempted malicious use of a telephone and aggravated stalking involving threats directed at one of the attorneys, as well as malicious use of a telephone to threaten the detective.

U.S. Attorney Davis commended the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Michigan State Police, and the Marquette Police Department for their work in this case. This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Paul D. Lochner and Maarten Vermaat.

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