Ex-Army private gets 45 years for plot against his unit
Ethan Phelan Melzer, 24, of Louisville, Kentucky was sentenced to 45 years in prison for plotting to arrange a murderous attack on his unit.
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Ethan Phelan Melzer, 24, of Louisville, Kentucky was sentenced to 45 years in prison for plotting to arrange a murderous attack on his unit.
NEW YORK (AP) — A former U.S. Army private from Kentucky who was devoted to a violent extremist group seeking to erode or destroy Western civilization was sentenced to the maximum 45 years in prison Friday for plotting a murderous terrorist attack on his paratrooper unit.
Ethan Melzer, the former Army private described as "the enemy within" because he plotted with a neo-Nazi group to kill fellow soldiers, was sentenced to 45 years.
A former U.S. Army private from Kentucky received a maximum prison sentence Friday for plotting a murderous terrorist attack on his paratrooper unit.
NEW YORK (AP) — A former U.S. Army private from Kentucky who was devoted to a violent extremist group seeking to erode or destroy Western civilization was sentenced to the maximum 45 years in prison Friday for plotting a murderous terrorist attack on his paratrooper unit.