WINDHAM – Leroy Eugene Dunn, now an inmate at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham, was sentenced Jan. 3 to 33 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for threatening the president of the United States.

Dunn, 30, pleaded guilty to the charge on April 25, 2012. He was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Bangor by Chief Judge John Woodcock Jr.

According to court records, Dunn wrote a letter addressed to President Barack Obama at his White House address in April 2011 in which he wrote: “I hate you and will do anything I can to get rid of you. … You will die at my hands. … I will kill you Barack Obama.”

At the time Dunn wrote the letter, he was an inmate in the Piscataquis County Jail and asked a corrections officer to mail the letter. The envelope containing the letter included a Dover-Foxcroft return address for Dunn. The corrections officer asked for and obtained permission from Dunn to open the envelope, which contained the two-page letter.

“The sentence is appropriate for a very serious crime, “ said U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II. Public officials must be able to carry out their duties without being exposed to threats against their life.”

The investigation was conducted jointly by the U.S. Secret Service, the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office and the Maine State Police.