Portland judge sentences man who threatened to put Obama in casket 'full of blood'

Darryl Swanson Multnomah County Sheriff's Office

A Portland man who threatened the life of President Obama was sentenced on Wednesday to a little more than a year in prison, but the U.S. Secret Service will monitor him for many years to come.

Darryl Swanson, 46, who suffers from mental health problems, apologized before U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown, in Portland.

Swanson made a series of calls to journalists and government officials early last year, telling The Oregonian in one of 25 calls placed to the newspaper that the government owed him "trillions" of dollars.

But on May 2, 2011, his calls turned grave. He phoned the Seattle bureau of The Associated Press to say he might have to get in touch with al-Qaida and some machine guns to "blast my way into the White House leaving the president and the first lady in caskets full of blood," according to federal court records.

Brown ordered that Swanson undergo three years of court supervision after his release.

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