Uzbekistan man accused of threats to Obama

Published July 27, 2011 at 9:55 am

President Barack Obama followed by Elizabeth Warren, assistant to the president and special advisor to the secretary of the treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, left, and former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, presidential nominee to serve as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), walk from the Oval Office to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 18, 2011.

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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) — Authorities in Alabama say a federal grand jury has indicted a Uzbekistan national who is accused of threatening to kill President Barack Obama and illegally possessing an M15 machine gun.

U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance on Tuesday announced the indictment of 21-year-old Ulugbek Kodirov of Uzbekistan.

He faces charges of threatening the president; being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm; and unlawfully possessing a fully automatic weapon.

He’s also charged with receiving and possessing an unregistered grenade.

Vance said in a statement that he repeatedly threatened to kill the president.

Court records say he was arrested July 13 at a motel near Birmingham after prosecutors say he obtained the machine gun from an undercover agent.

It wasn’t known whether he has an attorney.