An Idaho man who admitted trying to assassinate President Barack
Obama by shooting at the White House was on Monday sentenced to
25-years imprisonment.
Oscar Ortega-Hernandez
Oscar
Ortega-Hernandez, 23, appeared in federal court after pleading guilty
in September to terrorism and weapons charges. He had been originally
indicted on 17 criminal counts.
Prosecutors had charged
Ortega-Hernandez with firing a Romanian-made assault rifle out of the
window of his car the evening of 11 November, 2011.
After sending a
number of rounds toward the White House, he sped away toward a bridge
leading to the Virginia suburbs, but crashed his vehicle and fled on
foot, officials said.
The government said Ortega-Hernandez’s
fingerprints were found on ammunition magazines left in a 1998 Honda,
but not on the weapon itself, which also was left in the car.
Neither the President nor his family were at home at the time of the incident.
“This
man drove cross-country to launch an assault rifle attack on the White
House from Constitution Avenue,” said U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen, whose
office prosecuted the case. “He was motivated by hatred for the
President and the desire to start a revolution against the federal
government.
“We are very fortunate that his bullets narrowly
missed the U.S. Secret Service officers guarding the White House that
night. This 25-year prison sentence demonstrates that anyone who comes
to the nation’s capital planning to use violence should expect to spend
decades behind bars.”
Ortega-Hernandez was captured at a Pennsylvania motel five days after the incident.
Prosecutors
argued Ortega-Hernandez was dangerous and planned out his alleged crime
over a period of months saying although no one was injured, he hit the
executive mansion about eight times and did nearly $100,000 in damage
According to the FBI, Ortega-Hernandez’s friends reported that he made anti-government statements beginning in 2010.
Officials said he believed the federal government was trying to control Americans through GPS, fluoride and aspartame.
He
was also angry at what he believed was U.S. bullying of other
countries, including in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and claimed
that the President was the “anti-Christ” and told friends he was “on a
mission from God to take out Obama.”
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