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SECOND LASER TAGGER SENTENCED–18 MONTHS IN PRISON
FRESNO, Calif.—United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent-in-Charge Drew S. Parenti, and Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood announced today that KENDRA CHRISTINE SNOW, 26, of Fresno, Calif., was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for attempting to interfere with the safe operation of a Kern County Sheriff’s Department helicopter by shining a powerful handheld laser into the cockpit.
The case is the product of an investigation conducted by the Bakersfield Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), comprised of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Kern County Sheriff’s Department, and other local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.
According to Assistant United States Attorney Karen A. Escobar, who is prosecuting the case, SNOW pleaded guilty on July 18, 2008, to intentionally pointing a powerful green laser beam at the cockpit of, a Kern...
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