KKK member gets 30 years for plotting to kill Obama, Muslims with ‘death ray’
Prosecutors in New York are putting him away for awhile.
Glendon Scott Crawford, 52, a Navy veteran and a self-proclaimed member of the Ku Klux Klan, was found guilty in August 2015 of conspiring with another man to build a radiation dispersal device, dubbed a “death ray” by tabloids.
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Crawford is the first person to be convicted under a law barring attempts to acquire or use a radiological dispersal device. Congress passed the statute in 2004 to punish individuals who try to set off a so-called “dirty bomb,” which combines radioactive material with conventional explosives.
U.S. District Judge Gary Sharpe imposed the sentence at a hearing in Albany, prosecutors said in a statement. A lawyer for Crawford could not immediately be reached for comment.
Crawford’s co-conspirator, Eric Feight, pleaded guilty in connection with the case and was sentenced to eight years and one month in prison.
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