WASHINGTON (AP) — A 45-year-old man has pleaded guilty to threatening a federal prosecutor.

Darryl Tipps and 47-year-old Wayne Pannell were charged with threatening Assistant U.S. Attorney Deborah Sines and threatening to kidnap her adult son. Prosecutors said Pannell, who had been subpoenaed to testify in a homicide trial, paid Tipps to call in the threats in February in hopes of getting the trial postponed or dismissed.