A rural Colorado county courthouse beefed up security Friday after threats were made against staff and a judge who sentenced former county clerk Tina Peters to nearly nine years behind bars.

Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, a vocal figure in the MAGA movement, was sentenced to nine years behind bars on Thursday, with Colorado Judge Matthew Barrett delivering a scathing condemnation of her actions.

Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to 8-and-a-half years in prison and additional time to be served in the Mesa County Detention Center for a total of nine years incarceration on Thursday.

Peters was convicted of three counts of trying to influence a public servant, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty and neglecting to comply with the secretary of state.

We are receiving threats and compliments regarding Judge Barrett’s sentencing of Tina Peters,” a court executive said Friday

Tina Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk, falsely claimed Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.

Colorado court administrators are investigating threats against a district court judge and its staff after a former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters was sentenced this week in an election case. District Court Judge Matthew Barrett sentenced Peters to nine years in prison on Thursday and disparaged her push of discredited claims about rigged voting

Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for her role in a 2021 security breach in the elections office she was supposed to oversee. Peters will spend the next six weeks to six months in the Mesa County Detention Facility before being transferred to the Colorado

Courthouse staff in Mesa County have received multiple threats following last week’s sentencing of former Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters to nearly nine years in prison for her role in an elections systems security breach.