| | |title=Election Returns|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|date=December 10, 2016|accessdate=December 10, 2016}}</ref> | | |title=Election Returns|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|date=December 10, 2016|accessdate=December 10, 2016}}</ref> |
| − | In 2017, Sohail Ahmed Rana (born January 27, 1968) of Lafayette, in a "cursing" call from Fort Garland in Costilla County, [[Colorado]], to Higgins' Lafayette, threatened the life of the congressman. On July 5, 2018, he pleaded guilty before U. S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to one count of threats by interstate communications. Rana faces sentencing on October 9; Drell could sentence him to five years in prison, one year of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.katc.com/story/38589379/lafayette-man-admits-to-threatening-clay-higgins|publisher=KATC of [[Lafayette]], Louisiana|title=Lafayette man admits to threatening Clay Higgins|date=July 6, 2018|accessdate=July 6, 2018}}</ref> | + | In 2017, Sohail Ahmed Rana (born January 27, 1968) of Lafayette, in a "cursing" call from Fort Garland in Costilla County, [[Colorado]], to Higgins' Lafayette office, threatened the life of the congressman. On July 5, 2018, he pleaded guilty before U. S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to one count of threats by interstate communications. Rana faces sentencing on October 9; Drell could sentence him to five years in prison, one year of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.katc.com/story/38589379/lafayette-man-admits-to-threatening-clay-higgins|publisher=KATC of [[Lafayette]], Louisiana|title=Lafayette man admits to threatening Clay Higgins|date=July 6, 2018|accessdate=July 6, 2018}}</ref> |