Salon.com > Undercover police http://www.salon.com Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:03:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Chicago anarchist sent to boot camp for lie about bomb in Harry Potter book http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/chicago_anarchist_gets_4_years_for_lie_about_bomb_in_harry_potter_book/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/chicago_anarchist_gets_4_years_for_lie_about_bomb_in_harry_potter_book/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13065691 Sebastian Senakiewicz, 24, never made a bomb. He was never found with any explosive-making materials; authorities thoroughly searched his house. The Polish immigrant did, however, tell a boastful lie that has landed him a stint at boot camp.

Just days before the Chicago NATO summit last May, Senakiewicz drunkenly told undercover agents that he had two homemade explosives hidden in his Chicago residence in a hollowed-out Harry Potter book. A search of his home found the bombs to be as fictitious as the boy wizard -- there weren't even any Harry Potter books at the address. But the 24-year-old anarchist, who Tuesday pleaded guilty to one felony count of falsely making a terrorist threat, could face deportation.

The Chicago Tribune reported:

At a hearing in the Leighton Criminal Court Building, Judge Nicholas Ford imposed the 4-year prison term and recommended that Senakiewicz be admitted into a prison boot camp. If he successfully completes the program he could be released in as little as 6 months, but prosecutors said the Polish native would be subject to deportation on completing his sentence.

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