BREAKING: White supremacist US Coast Guard officer sentenced to 13 years in prison.
"There is little if any doubt he was planning a mass casualty assault to further his white nationalist views," said US District Court Judge George Hazel. But Hazel said Hasson"is not being sentenced for his views. He's been sentenced for the actions he was planning."to charges of illegally buying prescription painkillers and amassing an arsenal of 15 firearms and two illegal gun silencers. As a drug abuser, he was not legally entitled to possess the guns.
Just before the sentence was pronounced, Hasson addressed the court."I apologize for losing your trust and for the things I wrote." Hasson's public defenders said the appropriate sentence for what they described as a"little more than a run-of-the-mill firearms possession case" was time served in jail and three years of supervised release. His criminal conduct, they said, was the result of his addiction to prescription opioids.
They described him as"deeply ashamed" and said a clinical psychologist from Canada who examined Hasson concluded that he did not intend to commit dangerous acts and was not a domestic terrorist. "We hope this analysis," his lawyers said in a pre-sentence court filing,"puts to rest, for once and for all, the unsubstantiated allegations that the government has leveled."Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent who covers the Justice Department and the Supreme Court, based in Washington.
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