Albany, N.Y. — A Colorado man was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison after boarding a plane to Central New York in April with the intent to kill someone, federal prosecutors said.

Jerry Gordon, 56, of Colorado, was sentenced for transmitting a threat in interstate commerce to injure another person, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York. He also was sentenced to three years of post-release supervision.

Gordon threatened to set up a sniper’s nest to kill a person, prosecutors said. His plan came to the attention of federal authorities in December, according to an affidavit from FBI agent John Hogan.

In April, Gordon admitted sending four threatening text messages to a man in Aurora. In the messages, he warned the victim to “get your affair

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