Iowa Judge Overturns Jury Verdict in White House Bomb Threat

LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — A judge has overturned the conviction of an Iowa man found guilty of threatening to blow up the White House.

On Friday Judge Steven Andreasen granted a motion by the attorney for 37-year-old Jeremy Hebert, of Akron, saying the evidence didn’t support the jury’s guilty verdict rendered on Feb. 18.

The Le Mars Daily Sentinel reports, however, that Andreasen sentenced Hebert to five years in prison for three counts of felonious assault. Those sentences are to be served at the same time. Hebert also was given suspended fines of $750 for each count of assault.

Authorities say that when Hebert was arrested at his home on Nov. 20, he threatened to kill each of the three officers present.