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A man who brandished an assault rifle at a Black Lives Matter protest in Lubbock has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison.
Emmanuel Quinones, a 25-year-old Lubbock man, was charged via criminal complaint in early June and indicted a week later following the incident at a Black Lives Matter protest May 30 at the Tim Cole Memorial in Lubbock.
He pleaded guilty to interstate threatening communications in September and was sentenced on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix, according to Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
“The Department of Justice stands firmly against anyone and everyone who seeks to instill terror and encourage violence,” said Shah. “This sentence sends a clear message that our office will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to apprehend and charge all violent instigators, while protecting those who want to lawfully exercise their constitutional rights.”
Plainview man sentenced to 14 months for role in jail escape
U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix on Thursday told Juan Anthony Cordero that the facts of his case outweighed the lenient punishment both his defense attorney and federal prosecutors requested.
However, the judge acknowledged Cordero s role after his arrest in the capture of the man he helped escape from a South Plains jail and reconsidered the heavier punishment he planned to dole out and sentenced Cordero to 14 months in a federal prison.
Cordero, 25, has been held at the Lubbock County Detention Center since August and faced up to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty in November to a count of assisting escape from federal custody.
Inmate William Lee Terrell Could Have Sentence Doubled After Attacking Prison Employee
On 1/28/21 at 10:25 PM EST
A Texas inmate who has served more than half of a 19-year federal prison sentence could soon be sentenced to up to 20 additional years for attacking a prison employee.
William Lee Terrell, 44, was found guilty of attacking a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employee on Tuesday, according to a Thursday news release from the Department of Justice. Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah announced that a jury convicted Terrell of assault of a federal officer causing bodily injury, following deliberations that lasted a little over an hour.