UPDATED AT 4:20 A.M. 8/31/20

A Marshall man has been sentenced to spend a decade in jail for an incident that began at an area bank last year.

On August 30, 2019, authorities were advised that a man was threatening to shoot everyone inside Exchange Bank at 929 West Vest Street in Marshall if they could not get him money from an account. The incident caused schools to go into secure mode. Once on the scene, officers arrested 43-year-old Douglas Frehse, who also was found to be in possession of methamphetamine when being booked at the jail.

Frehse was originally charged with a Class D Felony for Possession of a Controlled Substance and a Class E Felony for Making a Terrorist Threat in the Second Degree.

On August 26, Frehse withdrew his plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to the possession charge and a reduced charge of a Class A Misdemeanor for Terrorist Threat in the Third Degree. He was sentenced to 10 years at the Missouri Department of Corrections on the possession charge and one year on the terrorist charge, with the sentences to run concurrently.