A North Carolina man was sentenced Wednesday in Macon to five years in prison for sending antisemitic threats to a Georgia rabbi and the state’s only Jewish member of the Georgia legislature.
Ariel E. Collazo Ramos, 32, was sentenced to the statutory maximum of five years in prison with no parole, in addition to three years of supervised release.
The High Point, North Carolina, resident was found guilty in November of one count of mailing threatening communications with the addition of a hate crime enhancement after mailing separate antisemitic threats to Georgia state Rep. Esther Panitch and Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar of Temple Beth Israel in Macon.
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