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Inmate sentenced after threatening to kill Obama

BOSTON — A state prison inmate has been sentenced to an additional 37 months in prison after pleading guilty to threatening to kill former President Barack Obama.

Alex Hernandez, of Worcester, had pleaded guilty in May to one count of threatening to kill and inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States.

The 32-year-old will serve the term handed down Wednesday concurrently with a state sentence he is currently serving for a 2011 conviction for drug and firearms offenses.

Federal agents launched an investigation March 2015 after Hernandez allegedly told another inmate he wanted to kill the president in a "lone-wolf style attack."

Hernandez allegedly said he wanted to become a holy warrior and get false travel documents so he could flee the country after the attack.