20-Year Term in Plot to Bomb IRS Offices
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A Texas man was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for plotting to bomb a U.S. Internal Revenue Service building in Austin. Charles Ray Polk, 46, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice to 20 years and nine months in prison without parole following his conviction on federal explosives and weapons charges. Polk, a car salesman, was convicted by a federal jury on six counts of explosives and firearms violations stemming from a scheme to plant more than 1,200 pounds of explosives in the IRS service center.
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