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Threats lead to guilty plea
Man who said he'd kill Obama guilty of weapons charge
The Associated PressShawn Adolf, 35, faces 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to having firearms as a felon.
Adolf was arrested in August 2008 after officers in a Denver suburb pulled over his cousin and found rifles, a bulletproof vest, wigs and fake IDs.
The stop led agents to Adolf, who talked about plans to kill Obama with the rifle. Authorities later determined the men were addled by drugs and had no specific plans to assassinate Obama.
U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said the threats were the racist rant-ings of "methheads." The cousin, Tharin Gartrell, already was sentenced to 15 days in prison and six months in a halfway house for possession of methamphetamine. Adolf's sentencing was set for Feb. 5.
A third man associated with Adolf and Gartrell, Nathan Dwaine Johnson, was sentenced in March to 21 months for possession of a firearm by a felon.
The Obama threat, made just before he arrived in Denver to accept the Democratic nomination for president, prompted a brief security scare.
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