1 of 3 defendants sentenced in Tenn. mosque firebombing
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NASHVILLE (AP) -- One of three men charged with firebombing a mosque in Columbia, Tenn., has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison.
The Tennessean reported that Michael Corey Golden, 23, of Columbia, was sentenced Monday to 14 years in prison.
He and fellow defendants Eric Ian Baker and Jonathan Edward Stone earlier pleaded guilty to burning the Islamic Center of Columbia last year. The city is about 40 miles south of Nashville.
Court documents showed the men painted swastikas and racial slogans on the center, then threw two homemade Molotov cocktails into it.
Baker and Stone will be sentenced later.
The mosque has re-opened in another building.
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