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Feb. 13, 2026

Inmate gets 10 more years for threatening federal prosecutor's family

Stanislav Yelizarov, already serving time for a 2009 murder conviction, was sentenced to an additional decade in prison after threatening to kill the family of the assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted him.

Stanislav Yelizarov, who is serving a sentence at U.S. Penitentiary Atwater in Merced County for the 2009 murder of a Baltimore jewelry dealer, was sentenced Monday to an additional 10 years in prison for threatening to kill the family of the prosecutor who secured his conviction.

The victim, an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Maryland, had previously prosecuted the case that led to Yelizarov's conviction and was prosecuting him at the time of the threats for additi...

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