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State Prison Inmate Pleads Guilty To Sending Threatening Letters

Fairfield County Sheriff's Office

An Ohio prison inmate has pleaded guilty to federal charges of mailing more than a dozen threatening letters he claimed contained anthrax or fentanyl but proved to be harmless powder. 

36-year-old Sean Heisa sent the letters between July 2017 and July 2018 to city, court and prison officials,two Ohio newspapers and then-Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. Some letters threatened the use of explosive devices. 

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