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KANSAS CITY, KANSAS (BNO NEWS) – A Bonner Springs, Kansas man was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for making a series of threatening phone calls to a Kansas Highway Patrol officer, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Timothy L. Wyrick, 33, was employed by the Kansas Highway Patrol as a motorist assist technician. He pleaded guilty to five counts of communicating a threat by interstate commerce.

In March 2009, a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper began to receive anonymous phone calls from an unknown male who threatened to harm the trooper. The law enforcement officer received the calls from a home telephone and a cellphone.

Wyrick continued to make the calls for more than six months, until September 15. In the calls, Wyrick described what the trooper was doing, how he looked, where he had been on duty and many other threats like that he had already prepared his burial site. He also claimed to know where the trooper lived as well as where the trooper’s mother resided.

Investigators began tracking the calls. Some were made from a pay phone at a Wal Mart in Paola. Others were made from a Tracfone with a number which was unable to be identified. On September 15, police investigators watched Wyrick while he was using his cellphone to make a call from the Tracfone number while he was sitting in a work truck parked at the side of 69 Highway. He was arrested and the cellphone was recovered from his boot.