A Maine man who admitted to sending racist death threats to a Black family living in his Lewiston apartment complex, will spend two-and-a-half years in prison.

The U.S Department of Justice says 46-year-old Charles Allen Barnes of Lewiston was sentenced Wednesday.

He pleaded guilty in March to one count of threatening communications in interstate commerce.

Court documents shows Barnes used Facebook Messenger to record and send a racial-slur-laden voice message in which he threatened, in graphic and violent terms, to kill his neighbors in 2022.