MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - A judge sentenced the man accused of threatening to kill a New York reporter and blow up her house.

Austin Suman was sentenced to nine months in prison on count one, which is threatening interstate communications.

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Authorities say Suman will be supervised for three years after his release from federal prison.

Suman was arrested in November in the Cresswind neighborhood after investigators said he “made a series of violent and hate-based threats to a news reporter, threatening to kill her and her family, as well as blow up her house

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