Man to serve 21 months for threatening officials in Shiawassee County – Macomb Daily

A 58-year-old Washington Township man was recently sentenced to 21 months in prison and five years of probation after admitting to threatening Shiawassee County officials, court records show.

George Hamas was sentenced on October 3 by Shiawassee Circuit Judge Suzanne Geddis in Corunna after pleading guilty to two counts of making a false report or threatening terrorism based on allegations that he threatened in 2022 harming multiple elected officials in Shiawassee County.

He had been in the county jail in lieu of bail since his arrest.

Hamas entered the pleas under an agreement with the Public Prosecution Service, in which two additional charges of the same indictment and two charges of using a computer to commit a crime were dismissed.

Hamas was accused of sending a number of messages online and in telephone voicemails to former and current government officials in Shiawassee, threatening death and violent action against them in June 2022, the Michigan attorney general’s office said. The Shiawassee County Sheriff’s Office said multiple threats were posted online and recorded on voicemail.