Tompkinsville woman sentenced for stalking and mailing threats

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A Tompkinsville woman has been sentenced to federal prison.

On Tuesday, Tara K. Thomas, 32, of Tompkinsville, received a sentence of three years and three months in federal prison for stalking and mailing threatening communications to a government official in 2023, followed by a three-year term of supervised, for one count of stalking and one count of mailing threatening communications.

U.S. Attorney Michael A. Bennett of the Western District of Kentucky, FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael E. Stansbury of the Louisville Field Office, and Chief Michael Delaney of the Bowling Green Police Department made the announcement.

Thomas will not be eligible for parole in the federal system.

Thomas sent threatening communications to a government official on September 21, 2021 through Facebook Messenger, officials say.

According to officials, Thomas, while being held at the Warren County Detention Center in 2023, continued to send threatening communications to the same government official by mail.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bowling Green Police Department investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Raymond McGee, of the U.S. Attorney’s Paducah Branch Office, prosecuted the case.

Link to our original report: www.wnky.com/woman-indicted-on-charges-of-stalking-mailing-threats-to-bowling-green-resident/