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Man pleads guilty to Cheney death threat Friday, March 18, 2005 Special to the Gazette A Wayland man who planned to crash his van into a campaign rally site faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to threatening to kill Vice President Dick Cheney. Homer Shoup Jr., 51, who pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, also faces fines of up to $250,000 when he is sentenced June 16. Shoup loaded his Ford van with a full tank of propane gas, a full 5-gallon gas can and three empty metal trash cans before departing...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge sentenced a Michigan man Thursday to four years and three months in prison for threatening to kill Vice President Dick Cheney. U.S. District Judge Gordon J. Quist also sentenced Homer O. Shoup, 51, to three years of supervised release after his prison term and fined him $3,000. Authorities said Shoup called a 911 dispatcher Oct. 29 and said he had turned his van into a mobile bomb that he planned to use to kill Cheney. They said he planned to crash the vehicle into a Lansing building where the vice president spoke...