Arizona man convicted of targeting Christian churches with bomb hoaxes in multiple states, including Colorado
An Arizona man has been found guilty of crimes related to his plot to target Christian churches in three states, including Colorado.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Arizona man has been found guilty of crimes related to his plot to target Christian churches in several states, including Colorado.
A federal jury found Zimnako Salah, 45, of Phoenix, Arizona, guilty of the charges against him following an 11-day trial. He had been accused of strapping a backpack around a toilet in a Christian church in Roseville, California “with the intent to convey a hoax bomb threat and to obstruct the free exercise of religion of the congregants who worshipped there,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release Friday.
The offense was considered a hate crime because Salah had targeted the church due to the religion of the people who worshipped there.
At the trial, evidence showed that between September and November 2023, Salah traveled to four churches with black backpacks. He planted the backpacks at two of them, causing fear that they held bombs, and was confronted by security at the other two churches. The four churches are in Arizona, California and Colorado.
Read more at Denver7.com.
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