A Florida inmate was sentenced for a serious threat to a courthouse and judges.
According to court documents, while 62-year-old Alvin Martin Few was serving a life sentence plus 15 years for state convictions in Florida, he mailed a letter to the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Miami containing threatening statements including “all judges die.”
Few put a white powder inside the envelope and wrote that the powder was “very fatal.” A clerk was exposed to the powder when he opened the letter. Lab testing later confirmed the white powder was benign and not a chemical or biological agent.
Alvin Martin Few was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Wendy W. Berger to five years and eleven months in federal prison for mailing threatening communications.
Alvin Few’s new federal sentence will run consecutively to his prior life sentence.
This South Florida case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Marshals Service. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Richard L. Lasseter. Few previously pleaded guilty. U.S. Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe made the announcement.
