A San Gabriel Valley woman was sentenced Wednesday to five years, four months behind bars for stalking a man and threatening to kill him and his wife, and threatening to bomb a U.S. consulate in Vietnam.
Natalie Nguyen, 40, of Pasadena, pleaded guilty in April 2025 in downtown Los Angeles to one count of stalking and one count of threat by interstate commerce to kill another person and to damage and destroy buildings by fire and explosives.
No one was physically harmed in the case.
Nguyen stalked a victim identified in court papers as T.H. and his wife from April 2023 to February 2024, sending emails threatening to kill the couple, according to her plea agreement.
One email contained screenshots of a text conversation about paying a hit man $15,000 to kill the wife.
In an October 2023 email impersonating T.H., Nguyen wrote to three government employees at the U.S. consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam threatening to kill whoever she believed has “been delaying issuing my wife visa,” papers filed in Los Angeles federal court show.
In January 2024, Nguyen — impersonating T.H.’s wife — sent a message to U.S. officials through an online portal stating, “Device will be detonated at America consular in Saigon and in San Francisco. All of you will be exploded for causing my separation with my husband for this last year. Everything will be exploded around new year or after,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
In a letter to the court, Nguyen referenced having a mental health issue and requested a referral to a facility for outpatient treatment.
Along with the federal prison sentence, Nguyen was ordered to pay restitution of $5,372, prosecutors said.