CLEARFIELD – A state prison inmate who threatened to kill a judge, a police officer and his ex-girlfriend was scheduled for sentencing Monday in Clearfield County Court.
Todd Charles Lingenfelter, 20, pleaded guilty to three counts of terroristic threats. He was sentenced by President Judge Fredric J. Ammerman to two to four years in state prison.
His new sentence will run consecutive to his current sentence of 30 months to five years for a parole violation from Jefferson County.
Ammerman asked Lingenfelter, prior to sentencing, why he had written letters from prison threatening to kill Jefferson County Judge John Foradora and a police officer.
Lingenfelter, who appeared via video conference technology, explained he was off his psychiatric medication and was not “thinking right.” When asked why he included his ex-girlfriend in these threats, Lingenfelter said he didn’t know.
Ammerman noted that Lingenfelter “clearly has mental health issues.”
According to the affidavit of probable cause, in May while Lingenfelter was an inmate at SCI Houtzdale, he wrote a letter to his ex-girlfriend in which he threatened to kill her, Foradora and the police officer. He also mailed a letter to Foradora at the Jefferson County Courthouse.
When he was questioned by police, Lingenfelter admitted to writing the letter and making these threats.
According to court documents, Lingenfelter was originally charged with simple assault, institutional vandalism, and defiant trespass in 2013. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Foradora to time served to two years less one day in the Jefferson County Jail.
When his parole was revoked in January of 2014, Foradora sentenced him to a total of 30 months to five years in state prison.