Army veteran sentenced to 366 days in federal prison for threatening Ill. VA hospital rampage
By APWednesday, April 21, 2010
Army vet gets jail sentence for VA hospital threat
BENTON, Ill. — An Army veteran who threatened a shooting rampage last year at a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital has been ordered to spend a year and a day in federal prison.
A judge also sentenced 30-year-old Mark Harmon of Shawneetown on Monday to three years of supervised release after his prison term.
Harmon pleaded guilty in January to attempted possession of a firearm on federal property with the intent to commit a crime.
Police at the VA hospital in Marion arrested Harmon last October after he told a nurse by telephone that he was armed and was “going to fill that place with lead.”
Prosecutors say authorities found a loaded semiautomatic handgun, a magazine filled with 13 bullets and 13 loose rounds of ammunition in Harmon’s truck.
