A terrorist in a federal penitentiary for plotting attacks on Southern California military and Jewish sites has been sentenced to an additional 22 years in state prison for a gas station robbery.
Levar Haney Washington of Torrance was sentenced Monday by Torrance Superior Court Judge Mark Arnold for a 2005 Chevron gas station robbery.
Prosecutors say he was part of a prison gang cell of radical Muslims that planned terrorist attacks and intended to finance them through robberies.
The 30-year-old Washington was sentenced in December to 22 years in federal prison for a weapons charge and conspiring to wage war against the United States.
(Associated Press)
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“Background:
Levar Haney Washington is 25 years old, and is from Los Angeles.
Washington converted to Islam while serving three years in the prison for a robbery conviction.
He is one of four men accused in an alleged plot to attack Southern California synagogues and military facilities. The other men are Hammad Riaz Samana, 21; Kevin James, 29; and, Gregory Vernon Patterson, 21.
Washington and Patterson were arrested on 5 July 2005 by police in Torrance, a suburb southwest of Los Angeles, for investigation of robbing the gas stations.
In September 2005, they pleaded not guilty to federal terrorism charges.”
Why am I not surprised that he’s a black Muslim.