HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man has been sentenced to six months in prison for trying to extort $12,000 from a police investigator.

Media outlets report 29-year-old James Lynwood Tuckson Jr. of Staunton was sentenced Tuesday in Rockingham County Circuit Court. A judge accepted a plea agreement in which Tuckson was sentenced to five years in prison, with all but six months suspended.