MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Alan Leroy McVay hoped to delay the three-year burglary sentence he was facing last year. His idea was to destroy the records of his case by detonating a 7-gallon propane tank hurled through the window of the prosecutor’s office.
His plot fizzled. The device broke a window, but it didn’t get into the office and didn’t explode. Prosecutors said the case could have been reconstructed from digital files anyway.
On Monday in federal court at Medford, McVay was sentenced to five times the burglary sentence: 15 years. He agreed in May to a plea deal on a charge of malicious destruction of property by explosion.
At sentencing, McVay said he was sorry, the Medford Mail Tribune reported.
“I understand that lives were at risk, and I didn’t want that,” he said.
