MESSAGE FROM
PROSECUTOR SHERRI BEVAN WALSH
Contact:
April Wiesner
(330) 643-8386
Fillinger Sentenced to Four Years in Prison
(December 28, 2011…
Akron) … Summit County Prosecutor Sherri
Bevan Walsh
announced today that Judge Lynne Callahan sentenced Justin Fillinger, 25, of Sladden Avenue in Garfield Heights, to four
years in prison.
On May 20, Fillinger placed an M1000
explosive on the wheel of a Northfield Village police officer’s private vehicle.
The vehicle was in the parking lot of the Northfield Village Police Department,
close to the Northfield
Village
Administration
Building and a private
home. Fillinger lit the explosive’s fuse and ran, but the fuse burned out before
igniting the bomb.
Fillinger pleaded guilty to Attempted
Aggravated Arson, a second-degree felony, and Inducing Panic, a fourth-degree
felony, on November 16.
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