SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 The youngest brother of late NFL star-turned-soldier Pat Tillman pleaded guilty this week to setting fire to a San Jose, California, post office last summer.<\/p>\n
Richard Tillman, 44, was arrested on July 20 after he rammed a\u00a0car into the post office\u00a0in a strip mall and then set the vehicle ablaze. The lobby of the building went up in flames. Nobody was hurt.<\/p>\n
Tillman on Monday entered a guilty plea in federal court to malicious destruction of government property.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn pleading guilty, Tillman admitted that he intentionally set the fire in order to \u2018make a point to the United States government,\u2019\u201d the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of California said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors didn’t say what point Tillman was trying to make.<\/p>\n
U.S. Postal Inspector Shannon Roark said in July that Tillman told officers at the scene he had live-streamed the incident on YouTube.<\/p>\n
Tillman, who remains in federal custody, faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he’s sentenced on April 27.<\/p>\n
After the crash, his brother Kevin Tillman said in a statement that Richard Tillman had been suffering from \u201csevere mental health issues\u201d for many years, and the family was relieved no one was hurt.<\/p>\n
Pat Tillman left the Arizona Cardinals to join the military after 9\/11 and was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 at age 27. His family is from the San Jose area.<\/p>\n
Kevin Tillman also left his Major League Baseball career with the Anaheim Angels to serve in the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 The youngest brother of late NFL star-turned-soldier Pat Tillman pleaded guilty this week to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-468753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}