Man sentenced to federal prison in phony plutonium plot

<p>A former Cherokee County prisoner was sentenced to three years in federal prison for telling the FBI a phony story about brokering a $12 million deal to sell plutonium to terrorists, the U.S. Attorneys office said Wednesday.</p><p>Tommy Leon Thomason, 32, of Woodstock pleaded guilty Oct. 21 to making false statements related to claims of threats to national security. He was awaiting trial on bad-check charges last year when the FBI counterterrorism office received a call from someone identifying himself as a CIA agent, who recommended the FBI interview Thomason.</p><p>Thomason told FBI agents he was a former money launderer for a Colombian drug cartel and said he had traveled to Russia and met with a general about the plutonium, which was to be financed partly by drug money.</p>