Caltech Grad Gets Prison in SUV Firebombing Case

A graduate student of the California Institute of Technology has been sentenced to federal prison on charges of conspiracy for the firebombings of several sozen SUVs. The firebombings were reportedly part of an environmental protest. A Los Angeles judge sentenced William Cottrell on Monday to eight years and three months in prison. Cottrell was also ordered to pay three and a half million dollars in restitution.

The twenty-nine-year-old was already serving an eight-year prison term, but was resentenced after an appeals court overturned his 2004 conviction of seven counts of arson. He retained the conspiracy conviction.

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