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Alan Leroy McVay, 47, of Medford, Oregon, was sentenced after
pleading guilty to malicious destruction of property by
explosion for the bombing last fall of the Jackson County
District Attorney's Office.
A propane gas tank rigged to a detonator and hurled by McVay
against a window of the building on Nov. 13 exploded in flames,
shattering glass and damaging the brick exterior, authorities
said. No one was hurt in the pre-dawn blast.
Police in Medford, some 475 miles (765 km) south of Portland
near the California border, said immediately afterward they
considered the bombing an act of domestic terrorism.
Federal prosecutors said in a statement on Monday that McVay
confessed when arrested a week later to committing the bombing
in an attempt to destroy the prosecutor's office and delay a
plea hearing and sentencing scheduled in state court for the
next day.
He had been charged at the time with four residential burglaries
and a firearms offense.
As part of his plea deal with federal prosecutors on the
bombing, McVay also agreed to enter a guilty plea to the
burglary-related charges in state court, with those sentences to
be served concurrently with his 15-year federal prison term.
U.S. District Judge Owen Panner also ordered McVay to pay more
than $14,000 in restitution to Jackson County for damage to the
district attorney's office.
(Reporting by Teresa Carson in Portland; Writing by Steve Gorman
in Los Angeles; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)
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