PORTLAND, Maine — A Cornish man was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland to 10 months in prison for a threatening post he made on the social media platform X, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maine said.

Chief U.S. District Judge Lance E. Walker sentenced Blake Tibbetts, 25, to 10 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Tibbetts pleaded guilty April 27 to transmitting a threatening interstate communication.

According to court records cited by prosecutors, Tibbetts used a racial slur during an angry exchange with another X user and threatened to pay "a visit VERY soon" to the user's "kind," sending "them" his "condolences."

The release did not say when the post was made or where the other user lived.

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