Former Columbia Resident Sentenced for Threatening Senator Darrell Jackson
| U.S. Attorney’s Office April 29, 2011 |
COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Dalton Lee Mackenzee, age 45, formerly of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court for making a threatening telephone call to South Carolina State Senator Darrell Jackson, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c). United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., sentenced Mackenzee to 18 months’ imprisonment to be followed by supervised release for three years.
On April 5, 2011, Mackenzee pleaded guilty to charges that on on March 13, 2010, he left a series of phone messages directed at Senator Darrell Jackson on the voice-mail system of the Bible Way Church of Atlas Road, where Senator Jackson is the senior pastor. In the last of these messages, Mackenzee threatened to use C-4 plastic explosives to kill Senator Jackson when he was at the South Carolina state house. Mackenzee left his name and phone number on several of the calls. Telephone company records corroborated the fact that Mackenzee made the calls from Galveston, Texas, where Mackenzee was living at the time.
The case was investigated by agents of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Dean A. Eichelberger of the Columbia office handled the case.