Inmate who threatened area judge and investigator gets more time

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Inmate who threatened area judge and investigator gets more time

An inmate in the Green Bay Correctional Institution who threatened a Pierce County judge and a former River Falls police department investigator got eight years added onto his 18-year sentence.

Today (Tuesday), Dunn County Circuit Court Judge Rod Smeltzer sentenced Bobby Salas, 27, Hudson/Baldwin, to two four-year terms for making threats to a witness and a judge.

According to officials with the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Salas wrote a letter to an attorney who was handling another case on March 18, 2005. In that letter he said that he would kill Pierce County Judge Robert Wing and former River Falls inspector Dennis Krueziger.

Kreuziger retired from the department in 2005, according to RFPD officials.

Salas said he would kill them for their involvement in a case that resulted in him getting an 18-year prison term.

Salas was convicted in 2002 for the November 2001 beating and sexual assault of his girlfriend on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

At the time of the trial, Pierce County District Attorney John O'Boyle called it one of the worst assault cases he'd prosecuted in 10 years.

"Threats to judges and witnesses are not only against individuals, they are attacks on the criminal justice system," said J.B. Van Hollen, state attorney general.

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