{"id":3750,"date":"2010-12-10T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2010-12-11T22:49:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T06:49:50","slug":"former-great-wolf-manager-sent-to-prison-for-sexually-threatening-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3750","title":{"rendered":"Former Great Wolf manager sent to prison for sexually threatening calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former human resources manager at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grand Mound was sentenced to prison today in a cyberstalking case prosecutors called extraordinarily disturbing and cruel.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Christopher Leonard, 32, was given a sentence of a little less than three and a half years, plus three years of of supervised release in the case authorities said included victims who worked with him at Great Wolf, at his previous job at a Miami hotel and even at the Olympia apartment complex where he lived.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard has been in custody at the Federal Detention Center at SeaTac since he was charged in May, according to the U.S. Attorneys Office. He was arrested on April 27.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorneys Office said Leonard admitted to making more than 4,000 harassing and sexually threatening calls to more than 1,200 phone numbers across the U.S and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the victims did not recognize the caller because he disguised his voice and phone number through an Internet &#8220;spoofing&#8221; service, according to a news release. He reportedly made graphic threats of assault and rape.<\/p>\n<p>In U.S. District Court in Tacoma today, Judge Ronald B. Leighton said the calls were terribly disturbing, painful and haunting for the victims, who unlike Leonard, &#8220;could not turn the lights off at night&#8221;, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty in September to one count of cyberstalking and four counts of making threatening communications.<br \/>\n\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Read &#8220;News brief: Former Great Wolf manager pleads guilty to making obscene and threatening phone calls&#8221; from Tuesday Sept. 14, 2010 <a title=\"&quot;News brief: Former Great Wolf manager pleads guilty to making obscene and threatening phone calls&quot; from Tuesday Sept. 14, 2010\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1979\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter The former human resources manager at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grand Mound was sentenced to prison today in a cyberstalking case prosecutors called extraordinarily disturbing and cruel. Daniel Christopher Leonard, 32, was given a sentence of a little less than three and a half years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3753,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}