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A Colorado man who was found mentally competent for trial has been sentenced to prison in Nevada for crashing his car into solar power facility and setting it afire last January.
Mohammed Reza Mesmarian, a Colorado dentist, was sentenced to two to 10 years in prison in Nevada for setting his car on fire at a remote facility near Las Vegas.
A Colorado man was sentenced to two to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for setting his car on fire at a facility near Las Vegas. Mesmarian pleaded guilty but mentally ill.
Investigators said they learned that Mesmarian had rammed his car through a fence, crashed it against a transformer, set it ablaze and sat in a chair watching flames for about 15 minutes before walking away.
Mohammed Reza Mesmarian, 35, was sentenced to two to 10 years following his plea in November in the power plant fire initially thought to be a terror attack.