Farmer Charged in Threat Case Lockdown Followed Call to Usda

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OWENSBORO, Ky.- An elderly black Western Kentucky farmer in a long-running feud with the Department of Agriculture was arraigned Thursday in U.S. District Court at Owensboro, accused of threatening a USDA employee during a phone call.

Harry T. Young of Pleasant Ridge, Ky., pleaded innocent Thursday to a charge he "transmitted in interstate commerce a communication containing a threat to injure the person of another..."

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Farmer Charged in Threat Case Lockdown Followed Call to Usda

A trial date has been set

for June 30 If convicted, the 82-year-old could face up to five years in prison.

Young denies threatening anyone, but says officials are out to get

him because "they s...

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