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Long Island Man Convicted In $2 Million Extortion Scheme
A former Home Depot employee has been convicted of attempting to extort the national home-improvement chain out of $2 million.
Earlier today, a jury convicted Daniel Sheehan, 50, of Deer Park, New York, of attempting to extort Home Depot and using a destructive device, specifically a pipe bomb, in furtherance of the extortion plot.
The conviction was announced by Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and George Venizelos, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office.
The evidence at trial established that in mid-October, 2012, Sheehan sent an anonymous letter to the Home Depot store in Huntington, warning that a bomb had been placed in the store’s lighting department as a demonstration of his ability to place a bomb in the store without detection and demanded $2 million.
Sheehan faces a 30-year mandatory minimum sentence for planting the pipe bomb at a Huntington, New York, Home Depot store in October 2012, in furtherance of the extortion plot.
On October 15, 2012, law enforcement authorities located a functional pipe bomb inside of a light fixture box on a shelf in the lighting department of the Huntington Home Depot.
Bomb technicians from the Suffolk County Police Department moved the pipe bomb from a shelf to an area that could withstand the blast from a potential detonation, and they rendered the bomb harmless through a controlled render safe procedure.
On November 7, 2012, after an intensive federal, state and local law enforcement investigation, Sheehan was identified as the sender of the anonymous letters and arrested.
At that time, agents seized from Sheehan the cellular phone he used to make two extortion calls to Home Depot.
Sheehan is scheduled to be sentenced before United States District Judge Denis R. Hurley on October 2, 2013.
Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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