WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
PHOENIX, Ariz. - Rene Ortiz, 56, of Casa Grande, Arizona, was sentenced on Oct. 20, 2026, by Senior U.S. District Judge Stephen M. McNamee to 38 months in prison. Ortiz was convicted by a federal jury on June 8, 2026, of two felony violations of Making Threats Against Successors to the Presidency and one felony violation of Making Threats Against Former Presidents.
On Nov. 5, 2024-Election Day-Ortiz delivered to the federal courthouse in Phoenix a written threat to "execute the newly elected [President of the United States] by firing an M-16A2 service rifle with a magazine of 6 rounds," directed a...