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Man planned to kill former US President Barack Obama, sentenced to six months in prison

A man who has posted on an FBI website that he planned to kill the president of the United States has been sentenced to six months served in jail.

The officer at the U.S. Attorney says Andrew O’Keefe, of Mansfield, will be under supervised release for five years after being sentenced Thursday in federal court in Boston.

In the month of May last year, prosecutors say O’Keefe wrote on an FBI website that he was planning to kill President Barack Obama and had a really good plan. He invited the Secret Service to pay him a visit and signed the posting with his Social Security number.

After the searching in the home and car of O’Keefe. more than 100 weapons, including swords, double-edged knives, hatchets and spears found.

O’Keefe pleaded guilty in the month of December last year and spent about six months in custody.

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