COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia man who was recorded on jail phone calls making threats against a federal agent has been sentenced to serve more than 12 years in federal prison, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Jonathan Dunlap, of Pine Mountain, had pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and threatening a federal official, the office of U.S. Attorney Charlie Peeler said in a news release. Dunlap, 30, was sentenced Monday to serve 12 years and seven months in prison.
When Drug Enforcement Administration agents and Harris County sheriff’s deputies served a warrant at Dunlap’s home in July 2019, they found eight individually wrapped bags of cocaine, the release says. Dunlap was arrested and booked into the Harris County jail.
While awaiting trial, he made phone calls from jail in which he threatened a DEA agent involved with his case, making threats against the agent’s children and trying to get the agent’s address, the release says.
“A threat to a DEA Agent anywhere is a threat to an agent everywhere,” said Special Agent in Charge Robert Murphy, who heads the DEA’s Atlanta office. “This sentencing should serve as a reminder to other criminals who seek to threaten a DEA agent that if you are brazen enough to commit such a criminal act, a long prison term awaits you.”
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