The former student charged in the Utica College threat that resulted in an hours-long lockdown, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Thursday.

Fahrudic Omerovic, 23, will serve six years for each of the two felony counts of making a terroristic threat via phone call.

The prank phone calls sent the college into a campus-wide lockdown for several hours last March, with many fearing there may be an active shooter on campus.

On Thursday, the Honorable Judge Michael Dwyer gave Omerovic the chance to talk about his actions where he said, "My selfishness and drug abuse brought me to unknowingly make those mistakes."

Mistakes he said he didn't even know he was making at the time, claiming he was under an adderall-induced psychosis.

"I am tired of the excuses, I don't want to hear about the adderal," Dwyer said. "I don't want to hear about the war in Bosnia. I want to know why you did this on these two days."

Omerovic responded with, "I don't know your honor, if I knew I would be able to sleep a lot better at night."

The calls he placed were ultimately traced back to Omerovic's phone last March. He was found guilty back in December.

The case first surfaced just weeks after the Parkland School shooting. Around the Utica area, community members and students protested for their safety in schools against gun violence.

"And hopefully this sentencing today lets the public know we are going to take these cases very seriously," said Assistant District Attorney Grant Garramone.

The defense echoing the same.

"My belief is that a message has already been sent prior to this sentencing," said Defense Attorney John Raspante. "The community already knows there is going to be a harsh penalty for this act, and that such actions and terrorist threat calls cannot be tolerated."

Omerovic's attorney did not say whether or not he would appeal the sentence.