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Neo-Nazi Group Member Who Threatened Journalist Gets Prison

AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File

An Arizona man has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for his role in a neo-Nazi group's coordinated campaign to threaten and harass journalists, activists and other targets on both U.S. coasts.

Johnny Roman Garza expressed remorse before a federal judge in Seattle sentenced him Wednesday. Garza pleaded guilty in September to conspiring with other members of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division to deliver threatening messages to journalists’ homes and other places.

On a Jewish journalist’s bedroom window, Garza affixed a poster that depicted a man in a skull mask holding a Molotov cocktail in front of a burning home.

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