LOS ANGELES, CA \u2014 A Long Beach man was sentenced Wednesday to two years, six months behind bars for using a Molotov cocktail during an anti-immigration enforcement protest last summer.<\/p>\n
Wrackkie Quiogue, 28, pleaded guilty last year to a single federal count of possession of an unregistered destructive device.<\/p>\n
A Molotov cocktail is a hand-thrown incendiary weapon consisting of a breakable container filled with flammable substances and equipped with a fuse, typically a glass bottle filled with flammable liquids sealed with a cloth wick.<\/p>\n
Quiogue on June 8 was near the Los Angeles Civic Center and was seen by officers holding a Molotov cocktail and lighter, according to authorities. He tried to run away, throwing the device in the process, but was arrested by officers, authorities said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen protesting crosses the line into violence, the penalties will be severe,\u201d First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said in a statement when Quiogue was charged, adding that the incident “could have resulted in life-altering or life-ending injuries to police officers, sheriff\u2019s deputies, and innocent bystanders.”<\/p>\n
City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES, CA \u2014 A Long Beach man was sentenced Wednesday to two years, six months behind bars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-303291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}