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Bulgarian faces 18 years sentence in US for weapons possession, criminal mischief
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A 39-year-old Bulgarian pleaded guilty in a plea arrangement to weapons possession and criminal mischief as a hate crime, prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, said on February 4 2010.
The man is expected to get a prison term of 18 years at the sentencing on February 25.
The Bulgarian was arrested in January 2008, when police found a weapons cache, including explosives, a 9mm handgun and other guns and ammunition in his Brooklyn home. The weapons where discovered when police searched the man's apartment after he had shot himself in the hand.
The Bulgarian later pleaded guilty to spray-painting swastikas in at least 23 locations, including two synagogues, and distributing fliers reading "Kill all Jews" in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood in 2007, local media said.
New York prosecutors said the plea arrangement was done with the consent of religious leaders of both vandalised synagogues, local broadcaster YourNabe.com said.
The man is expected to get a prison term of 18 years at the sentencing on February 25.
The Bulgarian was arrested in January 2008, when police found a weapons cache, including explosives, a 9mm handgun and other guns and ammunition in his Brooklyn home. The weapons where discovered when police searched the man's apartment after he had shot himself in the hand.
The Bulgarian later pleaded guilty to spray-painting swastikas in at least 23 locations, including two synagogues, and distributing fliers reading "Kill all Jews" in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood in 2007, local media said.
New York prosecutors said the plea arrangement was done with the consent of religious leaders of both vandalised synagogues, local broadcaster YourNabe.com said.
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UndertheCovers: in the EU it depends on how old the guy was and the girl was. It's still illegal in the EU but the mentality is much different.
I'm 25 and my aunt was encouraging me to get with my niece's 15 year old friends... (She is also mad old school BTW). I thought it was pretty nasty but she grew up in different times.
I wonder how much time he would get for writing "death to nigers"? Or if he were American? Doesn't the second amendment permit any body to have weapons in their home for personal defense anyways? It seemed to me like he got a long prison sentence for graffiti and foul language. Not that I'm trying to justify him or anything like that, what he did was wrong, but 18 years...? If he was stupid enough to shoot himself in the hand than he must have problems in the first place.
Yeah Stefcho,
butcthe US still has double the murder rate of BG.
I don't know, 18 years for vindalizing and spray painting ... there will be no black kids left on the streets if that was the rule.
Even the weapons - the only person he did shoot was himself.
Still being less tribal, and more logical than our Anglo Saxon friends, I say - keep him!
He seems to be enough of a waste of human skin - (although not nearly as bad as Schields or that other Australian, [...]
Read the full comment because he didn't kill or hurt any person) for us to let you have him;)
lol hes spraying swatikas
You may be right so there for I think its safe to say that our country and those that break the law's pay the price, I know this is unimaginable in Bulgaria, that crime and corruption runs rampant, just business as unual. As for our healthcare system, I don't have words, I've been to several BG hospitals, my opinion is the they are under trained DRs. lack of moderan equipment, I could go on and on but I don't want to scare the Bulgarians that depend on this system.
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Thoughly unpleasant but hardly deserving of eighteen years.
The USA it seems can afford to pay to have the highest prison population in the developed world (at any one time, 2% of its population is in prision). Yet apparently it has no money for a proper healthcare system.
I saw a recent case where a man got fifteen years for consensusal sex with a fifteen year old, something that wouldn't even be a crime in Bulgaria or most of the EU.