Nathan Andrew Horn, 30, Minot, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison, with a requirement that he serve one year and one day, and three years of supervised probation for calling a business on April 16 and threatening to bring a gun to the store and saying “it wouldn’t be pretty” if an employee he has allegedly been harassing did not come to the phone.

Horn will receive credit for 58 days already served in the Ward County Jail and eight days off the sentence for good behavior.

Judge Todd Cresap also ordered Horn to complete another class for domestic violence offenders, to obtain a chemical dependency evaluation, and to have no contact with the victim. He must also pay $800 in court costs.

According to court documents, the store manager told police that Horn has been making harassing phone calls to the business and to the female employee for some time but this was the first time he made a threat involving a gun. Horn is known to the alleged victim and there has been ongoing conflict between them.

Horn also has a prior criminal record and was sentenced in August 2020 to 90 days in jail for various domestic violence-related charges. In May 2020, Horn drove erratically and at a high rate of speed with a woman and two small children in the vehicle and, at one point while he was driving, reached out and grabbed the woman by the neck and pulled out her hair. He also had stalked the woman in June of 2020 and left unwanted messages for her at her home and workplace. He had also been ordered to complete a domestic violence offenders course last year.