A convicted killer from Maryland who is being held at a federal prison in California is facing new charges for allegedly threatening to kill a prosecutor's family, officials said.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California , a jury on Thursday indicted 35-year-old Stanislav Yelizarov on a charge of threatening the family of a federal official. Originally from Pikesville, Maryland, Yelizarov is an inmate at the United States Penitentiary, Atwater, a high-security federal prison in Merced County.

Court documents allege on March 23 that Yelizarov communicated a threat to an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Maryland over a recorded prison telephone line that he intended to kill the prosecutor's "whole family". The U.S. Attorney's office said he had previously

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