New Yorker to be sentenced for 'death ray' plot against Muslims
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NEW YORK -- A white supremacist convicted on charges that he planned to use a "death ray" to kill Muslims and President Barack Obama is scheduled to be sentenced on Monday in federal court in Albany, New York.
Glendon Scott Crawford, 52, a Navy veteran and a self-proclaimed member of the Ku Klux Klan, was found guilty at trial in August 2015 of conspiring with another man to build a radiation dispersal device, dubbed a "death ray" by tabloids.
Crawford is the first person to be convicted of attempting to acquire or use a radiological dispersal device, a statute passed by Congress in 2004 to punish individuals who try to set off a so-called "dirty bomb," which combines radioactive material with conventional explosives.
