- Gerald Leonard Drake, a former Civil War reenactor from Winchester, Va., has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for mailing threatening letters and planting a pipe bomb at the Cedar Creek Battlefield during a Civil War reenactment event in 2017.
- Drake, 64, pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered explosive device and stalking in April 2023.
- He sent threatening letters claiming to be a member of Antifa, referencing the Unite the Right riots in Charlottesville, and admitted to manufacturing a pipe bomb with dangerous explosive contents, which was discovered during the reenactment event and later rendered safe by authorities. Read More
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