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\"Alan<\/a>
Alan Leroy McVay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0OREGON<\/strong>\u2014 \u00a0A 47-year-old man who wanted to “destroy” the District Attorney’s Office was sentenced on Monday to 15 years in prison after his conviction for malicious destruction of property by explosion for the bombing of the office, officials said.<\/p>\n

The explosion closed down the office for two days.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner also ordered Alan Leroy McVay,<\/strong> 47, of Medford, Oregon to pay $14,854 in restitution to Jackson County for the damage to the District Attorney’s Office, officials said.<\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall commended both local and federal law enforcement for their thorough and effective investigation in quickly solving the bombing of the District Attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Adding, \u201cAny attack on the criminal justice system will not be tolerated\u201d and \u201cif the District Attorney\u2019s office had been destroyed or anyone injured, the consequences for the attack would have been even more severe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Southern Oregon man hoped the bomb blast would delay a three-year sentence for burglary, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n

On November 13, 2013, authorities said McVay assembled a bomb by attaching a CO2 metal cylinder filled with gunpowder to a propane tank and inserted a fuse into the CO2 cylinder as a means of detonating the tank.<\/p>\n

McVay wanted to destroy the District Attorney\u2019s office in order to delay his plea and sentencing in state court scheduled for the following day. McVay had been charged in state court with committing four residential burglaries and being a felon in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n

According to officials, this is what happened:<\/p>\n

    \n
  • At about 4:30 a.m., McVay took the bomb to the District Attorney\u2019s office, lit the fuse and attempted to throw it through an office window, but it was held on the window sill by an office blind, preventing it from completely entering the office.<\/li>\n
  • The CO2 cylinder exploded, puncturing a hole in the propane tank resulting in fire spewing from the tank. The device was blown just outside the broken window and was on fire when police and fire personnel arrived on the scene. The explosion broke other exterior windows and debris was blown both in and outside the building.<\/li>\n
  • Immediately following the explosion, officials said it was unknown whether there were other explosive devices in the area, whether a specific prosecutor or the entire office was being targeted and whether there were other targets.<\/li>\n
  • Police began checking other government buildings, residences of the prosecutors and judges, and the state circuit court was closed that morning.<\/li>\n
  • The District Attorney\u2019s office remained inaccessible for two days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Several days later, detectives and federal agents received a tip that McVay was believed to have committed the bombing.<\/p>\n

    Following up on the tip, officials said they determined that McVay and his codefendant in the state case, who had already been sentenced, had several telephone conversations.<\/p>\n

    Recordings of those conversations revealed McVay talking before the bombing about having \u201csome things to do it with,\u201d \u201c[getting] rid of all kinds of paper from the ground up\u201d and \u201cit\u2019ll be fun\u201d and \u201cyou\u2019ll hear about it.\u201d After the bombing, McVay mentioned about somebody blowing up the District Attorney\u2019s office and it was \u201cfunny shit,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n

    They also determined McVay was in the vicinity of the District Attorney\u2019s office during the early morning rs of the bombing.<\/p>\n

    Later, search warrants for McVay\u2019s pickup and residence uncovered containers of gun powder, bullets separated from cartridges and the exact type of tape on the explosive device used in the bombing. When McVay was arrested and confronted with all the evidence the police had accumulated against him, McVay confessed to the bombing, officials said.<\/p>\n

    Judge Panner agreed that the use of the destructive device in an attempt to destroy the District Attorney\u2019s office and the significant disruption it caused to that office and the Jackson County criminal justice system warranted the enhanced 15 year sentence.<\/p>\n

    As part of McVay\u2019s federal guilty plea, he will also enter guilty pleas to the four residential burglaries and being a felon in possession of a firearm in state court with those sentences to be served concurrent with his federal sentence, officials said.<\/p>\n

    This case was investigated by the Medford Police Department, the Oregon State Police, the FBI and ATF.<\/p>\n

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