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Man Pleads Guilty to 2018 Threats Against OSU

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July 1, 2020 at 9:36pm
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Did I completely miss this story? I don't recall anything about this at all.

A man who used Facebook to threaten a shooting at Ohio State and vowed to hurt players on the football team and then-coach Urban Meyer pleaded guilty Wednesday to making a threat in interstate communications, authorities said.

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Rippy faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine at sentencing, which has not been scheduled.

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Rippy was arrested Dec. 28 in Livermore, California, released on bond, but then failed to report to the court’s Pretrial Services division as required. Rippy also didn’t report to a halfway house as required, court documents said.

He was rearrested in January and ordered sent to Ohio.

- Associated Press

 

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