Texan Sentenced For Threatening Clinton

Fri., May 31, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

A Texan convicted for the fourth time of threatening to kill the president was sentenced Thursday to three years and five months in prison.

U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer recommended that Horace Caraker, who has a history of arrests and psychiatric hospitalizations, serve the time in a Butner, N.C., prison with a hospital and then submit to three years’ probation.

Caraker, 54, testified that he meant no harm last October when he called 911 while drunk and threatened to shoot President Clinton.

Caraker had served three- to five-year prison terms on convictions in 1975, 1983 and 1986 of threatening to kill other U.S. presidents.

On Wednesday, Glenn R. Armstrong of Massachusetts was sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening in August 1994 to kill Clinton.

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