CT man who mailed over 100 death threats to police, judges, journalists to be sentenced Wednesday

A federal judge is scheduled to impose sentence Wednesday on a man who has admitted mailing more than 100 threatening letters to people — including Connecticut state representatives, news reporters, police officers, government officials, and state and federal judges — in 2021 and 2022.

Garrett Santillo’s letters often threatened to kill the recipients and members of their families, according to a federal prosecutor’s sentencing memorandum.

Santillo, a Hamden resident, has been mailing death threats to people, on and off, since 2000 and has been prosecuted four times for such conduct, prosecutor Michael S. McGarry wrote in the sentencing memo.

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