Local man gets six-year sentence for death threat

A local man was sentenced to six years in prison last week for making a death threat.

Tyler N. Chapman, 29, of Crescent City, was also ordered to pay restitution of $4,700 to two victims.

Chapman stole a sedan from a person last April and threatened him if he went to authorities, District Attorney Jon Alexander said.

Alexander lauded two victims who testified in preliminary hearings. The sentence came after Chapman pleaded guilty to making a death threat in a plea deal that resulted in the dismissal a charge of grand theft, as well as all charges in a separate case, including receiving stolen property, illegally possessing two sawed-off shotguns and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

“For too many years Tyler Chapman’s reign of terror on this town was protected by no-snitch cowards,” said Alexander after last week’s sentencing. “That reign of terror ended with his six-year state prison sentence when victims in two different cases stood up.”

Alexander also said that Chapman may face further prosecution in connection with an assault on an inmate in the Del Norte County Jail.