A federal judge handed down the longest prison sentence yet for torching a car in Chicago during the 2020 rioting following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Judge Gary Feinerman on Monday sentenced Denzal Stewart to 3 years and 9 months for conspiracy to commit arson and civil disorder.
The judge said he believed Stewart was telling the truth and took his remorseful attitude into account when issuing a sentence below the 5 to 7 years suggested by federal guidelines. Prosecutors asked for 6 years.But he said Stewart’s lengthy criminal history needed to be addressed. Stewart had served time for residential burglary, multiple counts of possession of a stolen vehicle, resisting police and escape.
Stewart and two co-defendants went downtown to "steal and wreak havoc" while thousands of others peacefully protested downtown, Assistant U.S. Attorney Albert Berry III said in his sentencing memo. When they spotted the parked CTA van, Stewart used a lighter to set fire to a piece of cloth inside, prosecutors said. He then allegedly moved a cardboard box into the front of the van where a co-defendant set another fire.
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