Inmate Admits Mailing Bomb Threat to Federal Agency
| U.S. Attorney’s Office September 03, 2009 |
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GLEN SHARKANY, 40, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of conveying false information through the United States Mail.
According to documents filed with the Court and statements made in court, on approximately September 29, 2008, SHARKANY sent a letter to the Social Security Administration in Norwalk, Connecticut, in which he had placed a diagram of an explosive device that included the words, “I’m going to blow up your office and the IRS office as well.”
SHARKANY is an inmate at the Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown, Connecticut.
Judge Underhill has scheduled sentencing for November 20, 2009, at which time SHARKANY faces a maximum term of imprisonment of five years and a fine of up to $250,000.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Postal Inspection Service, and the United States Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Paul McConnell and Stephen Reynolds.