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Failed New Mexico Candidate Receives 80-Year Sentence for Politically Motivated Home Shootings
Solomon Peña was convicted on 13 charges including intimidation and firearm offenses after targeting officials to overturn election results, facing a mandatory minimum 60-year sentence.
- Sentencing for Solomon Peña is set for Wednesday at 11 a.m., after he was convicted of planning shootings at four officials' homes in New Mexico.
- Peña, a former Republican candidate, believed the election was 'rigged' after losing by nearly 50 percentage points and pressured the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners.
- The jury convicted Peña of 13 charges, including four counts of intimidation and using a machine gun after organizing shootings at two county commissioners' and two state legislators' homes.
- On Wednesday, the court handed down an 80-year prison term with three years of supervised release, though the judge could have imposed life in prison.
- Two of his co-conspirators were sentenced earlier this year amid a surge in threats against election workers after President Donald Trump and allies challenged the 2020 vote.
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'All for what?' Failed MAGA candidate gets 80 years in jail for shooting up Dems' homes
A failed Republican political candidate whose conspiracy theory about a stolen state House election prompted him to orchestrate shootings at homes of elected New Mexico Democrats will spend 80 years in prison, a federal judge ordered Wednesday.Solomon Peña – who handily lost the race for an Albuquerque-based house district in 2022 – falsely believed he was the victim of a election fraud and hatched a “sophisticated scheme” to harass and intimida…
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1010 WCSIFailed GOP candidate sentenced to 80 years in connection with shooting spree at Democrat officials’ homes
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A former Republican candidate for a New Mexico state House seat was sentenced Wednesday to 80 years behind bars after contracting gunmen to carry out drive-by shootings at the homes of Democratic officials after his election loss. Solomon Peña was convicted of 13 felony charges earlier this year after he orchestrated the attacks in Albuquerque, New Mexico just weeks after his defeat in November 2022. H…
Failed GOP candidate sentenced to 80 years in connection with shooting spree at Democrat officials' homes
Former Republican candidate Solomon Peña was sentenced to 80 years in prison for orchestrating shootings at Democratic officials' homes after his 2022 election loss.
Losing Candidate Gets Decades in Shootings at Officials' Homes
A failed political New Mexico candidate was sentenced to 80 years in federal prison on Wednesday for his convictions in a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of state and local lawmakers in Albuquerque in the aftermath of the 2020 election. A jury convicted former Republican candidate Solomon Pena...
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