Oakbrook Terrace man sentenced to 20 years for 2006 bombing of Hinsdale Metra station

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A U.S. District Judge sentenced of a 70-year-old former Oakbrook Terrace man to 20 years in prison Friday for the 2006 pipe bombing of the Hinsdale Metra station.

ATF agents and members of the DuPage County Sheriff bomb squad look for evidence outside the Hinsdale Metra station, Sept. 1, 2006, in Hinsdale.U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly handed down a sentence of 20 years in prison Friday to Thomas Zajac, 70, a former resident of Oakbrook Terrace.

Zajac is serving a 35-year sentence in federal prison for the Sept. 15, 2006 bombing of the Salt Lake City Public Library; a US District judge passed the sentence in April 2011. In a letter sent to the Hinsdale Police Department one month after the Metra bombing, Zajac threatened further terrorist action calling the Sept. 1 attack a “warning shot.”

 

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