COLUMBUS — A man who left a voicemail message at Republican U.S Rep. Steve Stivers’s office mentioning a June shooting at a baseball practice for members of Congress has been sentenced to more than three years in prison.
Judge Michael Watson on Friday sentenced 69-year-old Stanley Hoff to 40 months in prison following Hoff’s October guilty plea to threatening to assault and murder a United States official.
Authorities say the voicemail Hoff left last year at Stivers’s Hilliard office mentioned the shooting in Arlington, Virginia, that injured five people, including Republican House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana.
In a message left in March, according to authorities, Hoff said, “we’re going to take care of it our way” and “Leave Obamacare alone or die.”
Defense attorney Alan Pfeuffer said his client deeply regrets leaving the voicemails and causing pain to Stivers’ family.
Hoff was arrested in June 2017 and wss indicted by a federal grand jury in July.