Maryland Man Sentenced for Making Threats
Timothy Bland Admitted to Making Phone Calls
U.S. Attorney’s Office January 19, 2011 |
ROANOKE, VA—A Baltimore, Maryland man was sentenced today to threatening to harm a Roanoke woman and her child through a series of profanity-laced phone calls.
Timothy Grant Bland, 46, previously waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty to an Information charging him with one count of knowingly transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to kidnap and injure MW and the child of MW through a series of phone calls. This morning, he was sentenced to five years of probation.
“Mr. Bland’s vile, hateful threats directly caused the victim in this case real distress,” United States Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy said today. “Anyone who tries to intimidate or frighten another person by using the telephone, the Internet, the U.S. Mail, or any other instrumentality of interstate commerce will be prosecuted in this district.”
Bland had previously admitted that on December 20, 2009, between approximately 7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., he made at least five phone calls to MW, threatening to harm her and her child.
The investigation of the case was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States Attorney C. Patrick Hogeboom III and Amelia Guckenberg, a legal intern with the United States Attorney’s Office, are prosecuting the case for the United States.