LOUISVILLE (AP) – A Kentucky woman has been sentenced to nine years in prison for mailing racist threats to her neighbours, the Justice Department said.
Suzanne Craft, 55, of Louisville, sent multiple threatening letters through the United States (US) Postal Service in 2020 to an interracial family who lived in the same neighbourhood, according to court documents.
Many of the letters contained threats of violence and racial slurs, the Justice Department said in a statement. A jury convicted Craft in March of five counts of mailing threatening communications and found that the threats were racially motivated.
“This sentence sends a clear message regarding our commitment to ending hate-motivated violence and threats of violence,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Craft’s sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release, a statement released yesterday said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation Louisville Public Corruption Civil Rights Task Force and the US Postal Inspection Service investigated the case.
