Federal prosecutors announced Monday that a New Mexico man pleaded guilty to making multiple bomb threats to elected officials in New Mexico and Pennsylvania, according to a news release.

Jeffrey Ramon Diaz, 43, of Roswell, will face up to 10 years in prison following his guilty plea last month to four counts of “malicious threat to injure by fire or explosive,” according to Tessa Duberry, a spokesperson for the United States Attorney’s Office of New Mexico, in a news release.

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Prosecutors said Diaz identified himself by name, after calling himself “perdido,” or “lost” in Spanish, before threatening in phone calls Feb. 14 to light on fire or bomb offices of a United States senator, New Mexico Second Judicial District Court, the Doña Ana County Magistrate Court and the Pennsylvania governor.

While court documents do not identify individuals Diaz admitted to threatening, the criminal complaint lists a phone number for U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) as one of the numbers Diaz called.

In the plea agreement Diaz signed, he admitted that he called the Bernalillo county courthouse and directed the following threat toward a judge: “I stated, amongst other threats, ‘that I am threatening you, l am threatening your [expletive] life…and your building, I am going to blow you [expletive] up, I’m going to set you on fire.”

The other threats Diaz admitted to were similar, according to court documents. Diaz did not have any bombs, according to prosecutors, but “made the threats intending to cause fear, panic, and intimidation,” according to a news release.

In addition to the prison sentence, Diaz also faces a fine up to $250,000 along with three years of supervised release, according to the plea agreement he signed Aug. 11.