A New Haven man with a history of making fake threats has been sentenced to more than nine years in federal prison for a series of bomb and anthrax hoaxes that prompted evacuations and major police responses in Connecticut and Vermont more than two years ago.
Gary Joseph Gravelle, 53, pleaded guilty to eight federal charges last year and was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 110 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
Over two days in September 2018, Gravelle was behind more than a dozen bomb, anthrax and death threats targeting then-President Donald Trump, a Vermont airport, federal court and prison officials in Connecticut, the New Haven NAACP and religious institutions across the state, court records show.