No Jail for NYC Man over "Allah Akbar" Bomb Scare

Malik Sanchez is pictured leaving the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, on April 6, 2022 in New York City. Alec Tabak

HT RoP : An internet provocateur who identified as involuntary celibate — or “incel” — skirted jail time when he was sentenced Wednesday for threatening to set off a bomb outside of a Manhattan restaurant where two women were dining last year. 

Before he was sentenced, Malik Sanchez, 20, apologized to the women he threatened and said the bomb hoax – which he livestreamed on the internet – was the actions of an “immature and reckless child.”  Manhattan federal court Judge Colleen McMahon interrupted his spiel, telling Sanchez his actions were “that of a sicko” – but agreed with his court-appointed lawyer that he had taken steps to turn his life around.

The judge said Sanchez, who earned his high school diploma in the time since his arrest and hopes to join the military, is a “pretrial success story.” McMahon sentenced Sanchez — who had faced up to five years behind bars — to time served, counting the 23 days he spent locked up after he was busted and nine months of home confinement. In letters submitted prior to sentencing, the victims described how terrified they were when Sanchez ran up to them at a Flatiron District restaurant and said he was going to “enhance their meal.” 

“Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Bomb detonation in two, in two minutes. I take you with me and I kill all you. I kill all you right now. And I kill all you for Allah,” Sanchez seethed at the women in February 2021, according to charging documents.

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