New York, NY – A man convicted of threatening a motorist with a handgun while cutting in line at a gas station during the fuel shortage caused by Superstorm Sandy has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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Sean Bailey was sentenced Thursday after being convicted in June of criminal possession of a weapon and menacing.
Prosecutors say the victim was waiting in line at a Queens gas station in November 2012 when a car in which Bailey was a passenger cut in front of him. When the victim protested, prosecutors say Bailey exited the vehicle and displayed a handgun and threatened him. The 38-year-old Bailey was arrested after the victim called 911.
In the days after the storm, gas shortages created hourslong lines at gas stations.
I am happy he got jail time, but 14 years?!?
Pulling the gun was the first dumb thing he did.
Sticking around was the second.
Not taking a plea deal was his third dumb strike.
Thats insane somethings wrong with the system here
Dumb guy. He deserves to sit the full 14 years. He should have in NYC never used the gun improperly to threaten and menace. Had he simply shot and killed the victim then he would most likely sit half that time with a plead or not sit at all.
Either way I welcome having the jerk off our streets for a decade and more.
seems excessive considering rapists and murdersers get 10 years.
sorry but the punishment does not fit the crime. you have murderers, rapists, molesters who get lighter sentences than this.
ridiculous!
And the judge is going to eat eggs and potatoes for breakfast the next 14 years. What does it matter to him.