Syracuse, N.Y. — A Colorado man faces up to 5 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to getting on a plane to travel to Central New York to kill someone , federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Jerry P. Gordon pleaded guilty Friday to transmitting a threat in interstate commerce to injure another person, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York.

Gordon admitted in April he sent four threatening text messages to a man in Aurora, prosecutors said.

In the text messages Gordon told the victim to get his affairs in order before April 25 because he was going to “drink your blood from the chalice that I will make out of your heart.”

Gordon was arrested by FBI agents as he was getting off a plane in New Jersey on his way to Syracuse after law enforcemen

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