‘Tractor Man’ Receives 6 Years for Bomb Threat
A tobacco farmer dubbed “Tractor Man” was sentenced to six years in prison in connection with a March 2003 incident that brought traffic in the nation’s capital to a standstill.
Dwight Ware Watson, 51, of Whitakers, N.C., had been convicted on charges of making a false threat to detonate explosives and destruction of federal property after he drove his tractor into a shallow near the Washington Monument and said he had “organophosphate bombs.”
A search of Watson’s vehicles turned up a pair of aerosol insecticide cans and a practice grenade incapable of exploding.
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