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A south suburban man was sentenced to just over three years in federal prison Tuesday for leaving a message for a U.S. representative threatening to shoot up “terrorist” Democrats at

U.S. District Judge Ronald A. Guzman on Tuesday sentenced Louis Capriotti, 47, to 37 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of transmitting a threat in interstate commerce.

U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman called the man’s threats “vicious, laced with profanity, disgusting in every way.”

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.”

AP   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. BOSTON — A former track and field coach at Boston’s Northeastern University was arrested Wednesday and charged with using bogus social media accounts to try to trick female student-athletes into sending him nude photos of themselves, prosecutors said. Steve Waithe, 28, of Chicago, is accused of creating fake social media accounts to contact track and field athletes an...

Waithe is accused of creating fake social media accounts to contact track and field athletes and offering to help get rid of compromising photos of them he claimed to have found online. — Pixabay BOSTON: A former track and field coach at Boston’s Northeastern University was arrested Wednesday and charged with using bogus social media accounts to try to trick female student-athletes into sending him nude photos of themselves, prosecutors said. Steve Waithe, 28, of Chicago, is accused of crea...

Who is Steve Waithe? Waithe, from Chicago, Illinois, is a former track and field coach at various universities such as Penn State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Tennessee, and Concordia University Chicago. As per his charging documents, he worked as a track and field coach at Northeastern University in Boston from October 2018 to February 2019. His allegations are from his time at the university where he reportedly requested to use the cellphone of female athletes u...

Ex-Track And Field Coach Allegedly Tricks Students Into Sending Nude Photos Steve Waithe is accused of contacting track and field athletes and offering to help get rid of compromising photos of them he claimed he found online. Alanna Durkin R BOSTON (AP) — A former track and field coach at Boston’s Northeastern University was arrested Wednesday and charged with using bogus social media accounts to try to trick female student-athletes into sending him nude photos of themselves, prosecutors s...

CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois man was ordered held without bond Thursday for allegedly...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The ABC7 I-Team has obtained a recording of what federal authorities call explicit threats to kill Democrats including President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and others at the White House, allegedly made by a Chicago Heights man now in custody. Louis Capriotti, 45, from Chicago Heights is accused of threatening a slaughter coinciding with Wednesdays presidential inauguration in a vile voicemail left on a member of Congresss phone. In the voicemail, prosecutors allege...