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WHEELING -- A Follansbee man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges connected with threats made against jurors and witnesses in the federal Pittsburgh Tree of Life mass shooting trial has been sentenced to more than six years in prison.
Hardy Carroll Lloyd, 45, was sentenced to 78 months, according to an announcement made by U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld Wednesday.
Lloyd pleaded guilty in September to charges of obstruction of the due administration of justice. According to court documents and testimony, Lloyd, a self-proclaimed white supremacist, threatened jurors and witnesses in the trial of Tree of Life shooter Robert Bowers through the use of social media posts, website comments and e-mails.
Lloyd stated he took these actions because of actual or perceived ties to the Jewish community of the witnesses and victims of the shooting.
He was arrested Aug. 10, originally also facing charges of transmitting threats in interstate and foreign commerce, and witness tampering. On Aug. 30, he had been ordered to remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshal's Service, with a trial planned for the end of October.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigations and prosecuted by First Assistant U.S. Attorney Randolph Bernard and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jarod Douglas.
Bowers was sentenced to death in August after being convicted on a 63-count indictment related to the Oct. 27, 2018, shooting at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue which resulted in the death of 11 worshippers and wounding of six others.