LV man pleads guilty to sending threats to Virginia Tech alumnae

ROANOKE, Va. -- A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending an e-mail threat to two Virginia Tech alumnae on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the school's mass shootings, but said he only wanted to draw attention to violent Internet postings.

Johnmarlo Balasta Napa, 28, admitted to U.S. District Judge James Turk that he sent e-mails to two women who had complained that gunman Seung-Hui Cho had stalked them. Cho was the student who killed 32 people on campus as well as himself on April 16, 2007.

"Your honor, I had concerns about violence and school shootings," Napa said when the judge asked why he sent the e-mails.

Turk scheduled sentencing for July 13. Napa could receive a maximum of five years in prison, but Fay Spence, public defender, said she will ask that the term be limited to the time served since his arrest April 24, 2008.