WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A self-proclaimed white supremacist has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for charges stemming from a murder-for-hire plot that was actually an FBI sting.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports http://bit.ly/2Dwmpkl 45-year-old Adrian Apodaca was sentenced on Friday.
Apodaca was arrested in 2016 after agreeing to murder someone in exchange for $5,000 and a new identity. When he was arrested, he had a 54-inch metal wire used to strangle people, gas masks and a gun that FBI agents had provided as part of their undercover operation.
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Apodaca’s defense attorney argued that he suffers from schizophrenia and that the FBI sting amounted to entrapment. The jury disagreed.
A founding member of the Vinlander Social Club white supremacist group, Apodaca testified that he has since renounced his racist past.
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Information from: Sun Sentinel , http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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