US EditionFailed New Mexico Candidate Receives 80-Year Sentence for Politically Motivated Home Shootings
Solomon Peña was convicted on 13 charges including intimidation and firearm offenses after targeting officials to overturn election results, facing a mandatory minimum 60-year sentence.
- Sentencing for Solomon Peña is set for Wednesday at 11 a.m., after he was convicted of planning shootings at four officials' homes in New Mexico.
- Peña, a former Republican candidate, believed the election was 'rigged' after losing by nearly 50 percentage points and pressured the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners.
- The jury convicted Peña of 13 charges, including four counts of intimidation and using a machine gun after organizing shootings at two county commissioners' and two state legislators' homes.
- On Wednesday, the court handed down an 80-year prison term with three years of supervised release, though the judge could have imposed life in prison.
- Two of his co-conspirators were sentenced earlier this year amid a surge in threats against election workers after President Donald Trump and allies challenged the 2020 vote.
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Failed New Mexico candidate gets 80 years in prison in shootings at officials' homes
A failed political candidate was sentenced to 80 years in federal prison Wednesday for his convictions in a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of state and local lawmakers in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
This sore loser Trump-aligned politician gets sentenced for trying to have his political rivals assassinated
A former Republican candidate for a New Mexico state House seat was sentenced to 80 years in federal prison this week for organizing a series of shootings at the homes of Democratic officials after losing his election. Solomon Peña was convicted earlier this year on 13 felony charges, including conspiracy, multiple counts of intimidation and interference with federally protected activities, firearms offenses, and solicitation to commit a violent…
Former Republican Candidate Receives 80-Year Prison Sentence For Connection To Shootings Targeting Democrat Officials * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Danielle
A failed GOP candidate in New Mexico was sentenced to 80 years in prison for orchestrating politically motivated shootings at the homes of Democrat officials, the Justice Department announced. “Solomon Peña was sentenced to 960 months in prison for orchestrating a politically motivated shooting spree and plotting to murder witnesses to obstruct justice,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Mexico announced. “According to court documents …
'All for what?' Failed MAGA candidate gets 80 years in jail for shooting up Dems' homes
A failed Republican political candidate whose conspiracy theory about a stolen state House election prompted him to orchestrate shootings at homes of elected New Mexico Democrats will spend 80 years in prison, a federal judge ordered Wednesday.Solomon Peña – who handily lost the race for an Albuquerque-based house district in 2022 – falsely believed he was the victim of a election fraud and hatched a “sophisticated scheme” to harass and intimida…
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