ALBANY, NY (607NewsNow) – A Colorado man will spend time behind bars for threatening a Cayuga County man.

On November 24, 56-year-old Jerry Gordon was sentenced to 2 years in federal prison for the crime of transmitting a threat in interstate commerce to injure another person.

Gordon, who pleaded guilty in September, admitted to sending a series of threatening text messages to a man in Aurora in April 2025. In one message, Gordon, a former Cornell University employee, told the victim to get his affairs in order by April 25, 2025, and another in which Gordon told the victim he was going to “drink your blood from the chalice that I will make out of your heart.”

The FBI arrested Gordon on April 25 at Syracuse Hancock International Airport.

“Disgusting threats to kill the citizens of our district will not be tolerated,” said Acting U.S. Attorney John Sarcone III. “The defendant not only made these abhorrent threats; he traveled from Colorado to Syracuse to make good on them. Thankfully, local, state, and federal agents, working together, were one step ahead of him. They apprehended the defendant as he was getting the plane, thwarting his devious plans.”

Gordon will also be subject to three years of supervision upon his release from prison.

The Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office and Cornell Police Department participated in the initial investigation.