Bowling Green, KY – A Tompkinsville, Kentucky woman was sentenced yesterday to 3 years and 3 months in federal prison for stalking and mailing threatening communications to a government official in 2023.
U.S. Attorney Michael A. Bennett of the Western District of Kentucky, FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael E. Stansbury of the Louisville Field Office, and Chief Michael Delaney of the Bowling Green Police Department made the announcement.
According to court records, Tara K. Thomas, 32, was sentenced to 3 years and 3 months in prison, followed by a 3-year term of supervised, for one count of stalking and one count of mailing threatening communications.
There is no parole in the federal system.
Thomas sent multiple threatening communications to a government official via Facebook Messenger on September 21, 2021. In January 2023, while an inmate at the Warren County Detention Center, she sent multiple threatening communications to the same government official through the United States Postal Service.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bowling Green Police Department investigated the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Raymond McGee, of the U.S. Attorney’s Paducah Branch Office, prosecuted the case.