Kentucky man charged with threatening Obamas in Web poem

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A Kentucky man has been arrested and charged with posting a poem threatening President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on a white supremacist website.

The Secret Service said Johnny Logan Spencer Jr. of Louisville wrote and posted the poem, titled “The Sniper,” on a site called NewSaxon.org.

Special Agent Stephan M. Pazenzia said the poem describes a gunman shooting and killing a “tyrant,” later identified as the president.

Spencer is scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dave Whalin on Friday for a detention hearing. He’s in federal custody charged with making threats against the president and threatening to kill or injure a major candidate for the office of the president.

-- Associated Press