United States Attorney George E.B. Holding announced that on February 25, 2009, a Federal Grand Jury returned a single count indictment charging Kody Ray Brittingham, 20, of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, with threatening the President-Elect of the United States, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 871, which has a maximum penalty of 5 years imprisonment followed by up to three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.

A Mississippi family lost their son, and brother in Iraq in March of 2007. U.S. Marine Corporal Dustin Lee and his bomb-sniffing German sherpherd, Lex, were caught up in an insurgent grenade attack in Iraq’s Anbar Province. Corporal Lee die in the attack, and his gravely-injured trusty dog stayed with his body until medics arrived. Now Corporal Lee’s family has adopted their son’s partner.