By Emiley Morgan
Deseret Morning News
DRAPER, Utah — A prison inmate who said he had sent out letters containing anthrax to state government offices in December was hit with a federal indictment Wednesday.
The man, 21, is being charged with one count of mailing threatening communication and one count of representing false information, or a hoax, for the scare, which led Utah Department of Corrections officials to contact a number of Salt Lake offices to alert them to the claim.
The indictment states that the man, who was being housed at the facility in Draper at the time, specifically sent the letters to the governor’s office, threatening to “injure” the governor and corrections employees.
In the letter, the man told the governor, “You days R numbered” before threatening to “kill UDC employees.”
The letter did not, in fact, contain anthrax, and the man admitted that to officials.
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