By Associated Press - Thursday, May 21, 2015

ELKINS, W.Va. (AP) - A West Virginia inmate has been sentenced to another year in prison for threatening President Barack Obama.

Robert Dale Tasker is an inmate at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail in Belington.

An investigation by the Secret Service found that in 2013 Tasker wrote a letter threatening to kill Obama while he was incarcerated at the jail. He pled guilty to the charge in December.

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