A federal judge has sentenced a Chicago Heights man to 37 months in prison for leveling a threat against President Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration, a punishment designed in part to help “stop this tsunami of threats against our elected officials.”
Prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman to sentence Louis Capriotti only to two-and-a-half years in prison. But Guzman said Capriotti’s history of violence and criminal convictions suggests he thought he would face no consequences.
