Woman who sent threats to a Detroit-area election official in 2020 gets 30 days in jail

DETROIT (AP) — A New Hampshire woman has been sentenced to 30 days in federal jail for texting threats to a Detroit-area election official after a November 2020 meeting to certify local results in that year’s presidential race. Investigators say 26-year-old Katelyn Jones, formerly of Olivet, Michigan, and now living in Epping, New Hampshire, targeted Monica Palmer, the Republican chairwoman of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, and her family. The FBI says Jones sent photos of a dead body and threatened Palmer on Nov. 18, 2020. Investigators say she apparently was upset that Palmer and another Republican on the four-member Board of Canvassers initially refused to certify Wayne County’s election results on Nov. 17, 2020.