A college student in Wise County, Virginia has been charged with making death threats over the internet. Mountain Empire Community College student Allen Leon Sammons appeared yesterday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon and was ordered detained for a competency evaluation at a federal facility. Before being taken into custody in January, Sammons was accused of posting a death threat to several individuals on a social networking Web site. In January, he allegedly told an investigator with the University of Illinois through an email that he planed on travelling to Illinois. The charges came out of a collaborative effort by the University of Illinois Police Department, the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office, the Big Stone Gap Police Department, the Virginia State Police, and the Bristol office of the FBI.