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KC Man sentenced to three years in federal prison for laser strike
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for aiming his laser pointer at a Kansas City, Mo, Police Department helicopter. (www.justice.gov) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Does anyone know how he got caught?
I googled his name and 'laser'. Did not find a detailed 2014 report of the arrest but did find a sentencing memorandum that defense presented. It has some detail of his background:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3384242/10916168974.pdf
I found it mildly interesting, YMMV
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3384242/10916168974.pdf
I found it mildly interesting, YMMV
You yanks just love imprisoning people. You lead the world in incarceration of your citizens, you jail more people than Russia and China combined even though you are only 5% of the world's population. One in every 32 US citizen is under the control of the American justice system, either in jail or on parole. But hey you use a for profit system and there's money to be made taking away someone's liberty. Yes I agree that a laser pointer if used incorrectly can be harmful, but come on 3 years in the slammer, I think there could be much more useful creative methods of teaching an offender. But hey this is America where there's a buck to be made off jailing it's citizens.
We're also proud that we lead the world in NOT dragging people out into the street and shooting them in the head.
Dave, did you read the article to completion that mentions the fact that this guy has a long record of criminal behavior ? Slim chance he is going to come out even after 3 years as a reformed model citizen.
No "yank" bashing allowed. Thank you very much.
Dave,
perhaps your statistics are alternate facts, can you provide some substantiation for them? What would you propose for the length of a 'timeout' for this offense? Did you happen to read far enough in the article to see what I posted elsewhere in the thread? We 'yanks' don't love imprisoning people. It is tedious, expensive and clogs up the courts. Sadly, a proportion of our citizens, of which we 'yanks' have in greater abundance than you 'canuks', are less well behaved than our counterparts North of the 49th parallel
perhaps your statistics are alternate facts, can you provide some substantiation for them? What would you propose for the length of a 'timeout' for this offense? Did you happen to read far enough in the article to see what I posted elsewhere in the thread? We 'yanks' don't love imprisoning people. It is tedious, expensive and clogs up the courts. Sadly, a proportion of our citizens, of which we 'yanks' have in greater abundance than you 'canuks', are less well behaved than our counterparts North of the 49th parallel