Pipe-Bombing of NAACP Office Gets Man Five Years in Prison
A man with a prior criminal record will spend five years in federal prison after confessing to detonating a pipe bomb early this year outside a Colorado Springs building housing an NAACP office and a hair salon.
No one was injured in the Jan. 6 bombing, but two NAACP volunteers and the owner of the salon were in the building at the time.
A surveillance camera on a nearby home and witness descriptions of the suspect’s vehicle ultimately led an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force to identify and arrest Thaddeus Cheyenne Murphy on Feb. 19. He has previous convictions for theft, burglary and fraud, court records indicate.
The 44-year-old Colorado Springs man was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Denver after pleading guilty to attempting to destroy a building with an improvised explosive device and being a felon in possession of firearms.
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