SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A judge has sentenced a web designer to six months in custody for posting a bogus message online threatening bloodshed at San Diego State University in April.
Thirty-two-year-old Cristobal Gonzalez wrote a message one day after the Virginia Tech massacre claiming that 50 students would be killed. He posted it anonymously to his own site and then called a local TV station in an attempt to attract online traffic.
U.S. District Judge William Hayes says jail time is warranted to deter threats. Gonzalez will spend three months in federal prison but can serve the rest of his sentence in a halfway house.
Gonzalez apologized to the judge. He says he posted the hoax because he was exhausted thinking of new ways to promote the web site.
