BRENTWOOD — Elijah Wallace, already serving a federal prison sentence for sending local death threats, has been sentenced to two to six years in state prison for witness tampering.

Wallace, 24, was sentenced Wednesday at Rockingham County Superior Court after pleading guilty to the charge which stemmed from a letter he sent to the Cross Roads House homeless shelter in Portsmouth, stating that if they called police, he would harm a local rabbi and his family.

"His life is yours," Wallace wrote in the letter.

Wallace had previously sent the shelter a letter demanding that all Jews be "cast out" by Aug. 14, 2006.

Wallace is already incarcerated on a 78-month prison term for similar threats elsewhere.

He will serve his new and old sentences concurrently, rather than one after the other, according to the judge's order.

On June 14, Wallace was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to six counts of mailing threatening letters to a Seabrook pastor, area police and a school administrator.

In 2002, he was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for mailing anthrax threats to state and federal officials, including the president of the United States.