NEWPORT NEWS — A Gloucester man who posted videos on social media threatening deputies and their families with violence if they were involved in his son’s arrest was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced.

The federal district court ordered the three-year sentence to run consecutively to the five-year sentence imposed by the Commonwealth of Virginia earlier this year for offenses related to the federal conviction.

According to court documents, following the arrest of his adult son in August 2023 by the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office, 59-year-old Allen Dowell posted videos on social media threatening deputies and their families with violence if they were involve

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