Youngstown man who police say threatened a postal worker with a gun learned his fate Wednesday morning

A court employee told 21 News 35-year-old Terry Luckey was sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty in December to charges of tampering with evidence and improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle.

This was the sentence recommended by the prosecution.

A postal worker told police last April that a man in a black Dodge Durango pulled up on Schenley Avenue in Youngstown and told the USPS employee, "You know they are killing mail men around here.”  The worker told officers that the driver, later identified as Luckey, pulled out a gun before driving away.

Officers spotted Luckey’s SUV turning onto Oakwood Avenue, where he accelerated to nearly 80 miles per hour in a 35 miles per hour zone. Police followed the SUV to Interstate 680 near the Madison Avenue Expressway on-ramp where it was pulled over.

Inside the SUV, police say they found two magazines containing 9mm ammunition. Officers say they found a loaded gun in the grass near another magazine along the I-680 on-ramp.