SoCal Man Guilty of Threatening Obama

SAN DIEGO (CN) - A La Mesa man on Tuesday was found guilty of threatening Barack Obama just before the presidential election. Walter Edward Bagdasarian "made two racist statements threatening gun violence against Obama on a public Yahoo! message board," and agents who raided his house found six guns, including a .50 caliber rifle with ammunition, federal prosecutors said.

Bagdasarian will be sentenced on Oct. 6 on two counts of threatening a major candidate for president.

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