MIAMI, Oct 17: A Pakistani teenager living in Florida who plotted bomb attacks on electrical power substations and a National Guard armoury in southern Florida was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Thursday, officials said.
Imran Mandhai, 19, was sentenced to 140 months by US District Judge William Dimitrouleas after pleading guilty in August to a charge of conspiracy to damage and destroy property through fire and explosives, the US Attorney’s office said.
Co-defendant Shueyb Mosa Jokhan, 24, was sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison two weeks ago after also pleading guilty to a charge of conspiracy to destroy property.
Prosecutors said Mandhai recruited Jokhan, a US citizen, and conspired with him between May 2000 and May 2001 to bomb electrical power substations and a National Guard armoury as part of what they saw as an Islamic holy war.
Their plotting took place between May 2000 and May 2001 in Miami-Dade County and neighbouring Broward County, prosecutors said, but no attacks or attempted attacks ever took place. The two defendants were arrested in May.—Reuters
