Man Gets 5 Years In Prison For Explosion Near NAACP Office

By The Associated Press
· Nov. 3, 2015, 11:25 pm

A man who set off a small explosion near the NAACP office in Colorado Springs earlier this year has been sentenced to five years in federal prison.

Forty-four-year-old Thaddeus Murphy pleaded guilty in August to arson under an agreement with prosecutors, saying he was not targeting the nation's oldest civil rights organization.

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