Bird Island man sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for threatening to kill woman – West Central Tribune

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— Scott William Mooney, 27, of Bird Island, has been sentenced to 153 months in jail, right after he was convicted of generating many threats of violence from a lady, like threatening to have her killed.

Mooney was charged with conspiracy to dedicate murder in the first diploma, conspiracy to dedicate arson and threats of violence, all felonies. A jury on April 26 observed him

responsible of all the expenses

. He was sentenced Thursday.

Mooney will provide his time at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud. He will get credit for 43 times. He will be in prison for at least two-thirds of the sentence and could serve the remaining third on supervised launch.

In accordance to court docket paperwork, on Aug. 11, 2021, Mooney made different threats of violence towards a female, which include indicating he would have gang users get rid of her, either by actual physical violence or placing her apartment on fireplace.

That exact working day, Mooney wired cash to a co-conspirator who was to have out the act. Mooney ongoing to send threatening messages to the woman in the early morning several hours of Aug. 12, which include graphic facts of how alleged gang users could harm her.

The woman documented the threatening messages and phone calls Mooney had created to her to regulation enforcement, court docket files claimed. Messages in between Mooney and the co-conspirator ended up also uncovered all through the investigation.

The co-conspirator never showed up, telling Mooney he had been pulled over by law enforcement on his way to Chicken Island and experienced to flee, courtroom files claimed.