The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday sentenced a North Carolina man to 28 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge regarding a threat he made against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The trial followed an FBI investigation and prosecution by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Colombia.

The man, Cleveland Grover Meredith, Jr., pleaded guilty to interstate communication of threats. FBI investigators determined that Meredith traveled to Washington, DC on January 6 with plans to attend rallies following the riots at the US Capitol. On January 7, he sent a text message to a relative in Georgia that included a threat directed towards Speaker Pelosi. The FBI was then contacted and proceeded to Meredith’s hotel, where they found two firearms and 2,500 rounds of ammunition.

Interstate communication of threats under 18 U.S.C. § 875 (c) can result in up to five years’ imprisonment. It is defined by transmitting “in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another.”

As Meredith’s text message traveled between DC and Georgia, the federal government had the necessary interstate jurisdiction to prosecute him under this statute. Following the completion of his 28 months in prison, Meredith will additionally serve three years of supervised release by Judge Amy Berman Jackson.

The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced that Meredith is one of more than 700 individuals who has been arrested so far for crimes related to the January 6 breach of the US Capitol.