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| US Man Pleads Guilty To Hoax Threat |
| US Man Pleads Guilty To Hoax Threat To Blow Up Statue Of Liberty
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 6-June-2016
20:57:40 PM |
| A West Virginia man on Monday pleaded guilty to making a hoax threat to blow up the Statue of Liberty last year, which prompted the evacuation of thousands of tourists from Liberty Island in New York harbour.
Jason Paul Smith, 42, admitted to one count of conveying false and misleading information and hoaxes before US District Judge Vernon Broderick in Manhattan. The defendant said he was currently in mental health treatment.
Assistant US Attorney David Zhou said the government agreed under a plea deal to recommend a sentence of three years' supervised release, though the judge is not bound by that recommendation.
Smith faces a maximum five-year prison term at his scheduled Sept. 6 sentencing. Jennifer Willis, a federal public defender representing Smith, said after the hearing that her client was satisfied with the deal.
The defendant, from Harts, West Virginia, was accused of making the hoax threat in an April 2015 call in which he identified himself as an "ISI terrorist" named Abdul Yasin, and said "we" were planning to "blow up" the Statute of Liberty
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