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Former Columbia man sentenced for threats against SC senator

Posted: 04.29.2011 at 5:21 PM

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COLUMBIA (WACH) -- A former Midlands man was sentenced in federal court for threatening the life of of a state senator.

Dalton Lee Mackenzee, 45, will spend 18 months behind bars for making a threatening phone call to South Carolina Senator Darrell Jackson.

Mackenzee pleaded guilty last year to leaving several messages at the Bible Way Church on Atlas Road targeting Jackson. Mackenzee left his name and number on several of the messages made from Galveston, TX.

In the messages, he said he was going to us C-4 plastic explosives to kill the senator.

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