Man Indicted For Making Threats

A man was indicted Thursday on charges of threatening President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno.

Paul F. Walling Jr., 49, was also charged with 23 counts of making false statements in the acquisition of a firearm, two counts of interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle and one count of credit card fraud.

Walling was arrested on July 16, 1994, in Cape May, N.J., while walking toward a stolen vehicle brimming with handguns, semiautomatic rifles and ammunition. Weapons also were found in his house.

He told a friend who is a police officer that he wanted to kill Clinton and Reno “for what they have done to the American people by trying to take guns away from them,” court papers said.

There’s no evidence that Walling ever got close to the president, who visited Philadelphia the day before Walling’s arrest.

Walling faces up to 155 years in prison if convicted on all counts.