LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — A Las Vegas woman has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for threatening two federal judges and a probation officer involved in her earlier conviction for mailing death threats to lawyers.
The sentence for 42-year-old Latonia Smith was handed down Thursday in federal court in Dallas, where she is being held, following her June 2025 conviction on three counts of cyberstalking. A jury found she targeted U.S. District Judges Richard Franklin Boulware and Jennifer A. Dorsey, as well as probation officer Shawn Mummey, through a series of menacing, research-heavy emails.
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Smith, who holds a biochemistry degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was first convicted in 2021 for mailing threats to lawyers in a civil case. She was sentenced to 36 months in prison. After her release, Smith was transferred to Washoe County to face allegations in a separate armed home-invasion case targeting another lawyer in Reno.
She would be granted bail in June 2022 and returned to Las Vegas, where, according to court records, she immediately began searching online for information about Judge Boulware, his wife — Las Vegas City Councilwoman Nancy Brune — and their family.
Smith also ran searches such as “judges should die,” “judges die,” “how to become a bomb maker,” “how to be a mass shooter,” “buying a gun,” and “AR 15 for sale.” Prosecutors said Smith’s emails escalated over the following weeks.
Court documents and trial testimony showed she had closely tracked the personal lives and locations of her targets, including accurately describing Judge Dorsey’s home and neighborhood in Henderson. Dorsey testified that Smith’s knowledge of her residence was a key factor in her decision to sell her house and move.
At trial, the victims testified they believed Smith was capable of carrying out violence, pointing to her alleged involvement in the armed home invasion in Reno.
Jurors deliberated less than a day before convicting Smith on three cyberstalking counts tied to the emails sent to the two judges and Mummey. She was acquitted on two additional counts.
In the months before sentencing, prosecutors said Smith showed no remorse. In June 2025, she allegedly told Deputy U.S. Marshals, “I won’t be locked up forever; I will get out. When I get out, people are going to die.”
The FBI led the investigation.
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