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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday January 18 2017, @09:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the see-right-through-it dept.

Fire the beam weapons! A man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison over his dream of a novel "weapon of mass destruction":

A 52-year-old industrial mechanic who was the first person in the U.S. convicted of trying to produce a weapon of mass destruction under a 2004 law intended to stop terrorists from using radiation-dispersing "dirty bombs" was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release.

Glendon Scott Crawford, of Galway in upstate New York, planned to kill Muslims because of their religion as well as other people whose political and social beliefs he disagreed with, U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian said. "This is a classic case of domestic terrorism," Hartunian said after Crawford's sentencing by U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe.

Investigators began tracking Crawford in 2012 after he approached two local Jewish groups with his idea for how they could defeat their enemies using a mobile X-ray weapon. Prosecutors said Crawford also sought support for the device in 2013 from a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard in North Carolina who was an FBI informant.

Also at NBC New York. Here's a story about Glendon Crawford and his friend Eric Feight being charged back in 2013.

The moral of this story? Trust no one and do it yourself.


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  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday January 18 2017, @10:42PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Wednesday January 18 2017, @10:42PM (#455749)

    Better Moral: Don't make plans.

    Brb sitting on my couch and watching hockey.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Eristone on Wednesday January 18 2017, @11:50PM

    by Eristone (4775) on Wednesday January 18 2017, @11:50PM (#455778)

    I don't make plans any more - because the Prosecutor keeps using the word "Premeditated" in their Grand Jury filings.