Sean Bottorff was also ordered to pay Walmart nearly $7.3 million in damages.
Updated:A co-conspirator in the scheme to set fires to Walmarts along the Gulf Coast was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison Thursday.
The federal indictment against ringleader Jeffrey Sikes and his fellow conspirators alleged they maliciously set the fires “to force Walmart, Inc. to meet demands related to interstate and foreign commerce set forth by the conspirators in their manifesto ” Some of those calls include a “burner phone” used to take pictures of a six-page manifesto titled “Declaration of War and Demands for the People” which the indictment says was “Supposedly written by a group called ‘The Veterans Order.’”
The fire set inside the I-65 Service Road Walmart caused an estimated $8.5 million in damage, according to testimony by the store’s senior director John Wimsett. The store was closed for two weeks for cleanup and repair.
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