Inmate Who Mailed Bomb Threat to Federal Agency Sentenced to 18 Months in Federal Prison

Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GLEN SHARKANY, 41, was sentenced today to by United States Magistrate Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. On September 3, 2009, SHARKANY pleaded guilty to one count of conveying false information through the United States Mail.

According to court documents 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. Judge Underhill ordered that SHARKANY begin serving his 18-month federal sentence at the conclusion of his state sentence.

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 was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Paul McConnell and Stephen Reynolds.