MACON β A former security subcontractor working at the Athens-Clarke County Democratic Party coordinated campaign office was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison for sending a threatening message to bomb their local headquarters the day before the U.S. Senators from Georgia were in town for campaign events.
Jessica Diane Higginbotham, aka Jessica Harriod, aka Jessica Jones, 35, of Elberton, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison to be followed by two years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Tilman E. βTrippβ Self III. Higginbotham pleaded guilty to one count of communicating a bomb threat on May 16. There is no parole in federal prison.
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