A 66-year-old graduate of Del Oro High School in Loomis has been sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to take anger management classes for one year for making criminal threats against the school's head football coach.
Dennis Blaine McLin was angry because players at the school had continued to wear a jersey number that was supposed to have been retired in 1961, according to a Placer County District Attorney's Office news release.
He was sentenced Friday after pleading no contest to a felony count of stalking and a misdemeanor charge of making criminal threats.
Placer County Superior Court Judge Mark S. Curry also placed McLin on probation for five years.
The defendant was given credit for having served 19 days of jail time and will be allowed to serve the remainder of his jail sentence through house arrest with electronic monitoring in Nevada, where he lives.
Prosecutor Garen Horst of the Placer County District Attorney's Office said McLin became angry after attending a game in 2008 and discovering that the retired jersey number of one of his old teammates was still being used by Del Oro players.
Horst said the threats against Del Oro football coach Casey Taylor began in December 2009, when the team reached the CIF playoffs.
On Dec. 5, 2009, McLin left a profanity-laced message on Taylor's answering machine. He stated, "I am after you," and made threats to fight with and harm Taylor, Horst said.
On Feb. 23, 2010, McLin left a second message for Taylor, telling him to resign "or I'm going to sue you." He threatened to slander Taylor's name by going to the newspapers with various accusations, according to the news release.
Two days later, a Placer County sheriff's detective talked with McLin by phone. A warrant subsequently was issued for McLin's arrest on charges of stalking and making criminal threats.
The prosecutor said McLin had been convicted on two occasions of felony charges of resisting peace officers in the 1990s.
Under conditions imposed by Judge Curry, McLin must have no further contact with Taylor or Del Oro High School. He also may not possess deadly weapons and is subject to searches of his home and person upon requests by peace officers.
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