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As part of an agreement with federal prosecutors, a Billings man pleaded guilty on Friday to threatening to kill Montana Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester last year.

Anthony James Cross, 30, pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to threatening to injure and kill Tester. As part of an agreement with the government, prosecutors agreed to drop another count on which Cross had originally been indicted, threatening to kill President Joe Biden, at a sentencing hearing set for May.

Cross was indicted in September by a federal grand jury on allegations he left Tester threatening voicemails in April and made other statements about his hopes to kill Biden.


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