Ex-worker gets 30 years in Home Depot bomb plot
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A former employee convicted of planting a pipe bomb at a Home Depot store to try to extort $2 million from the company was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Daniel Sheehan’s case stemmed from a scare that spurred the evacuation of a Home Depot in Huntington in October 2012. Sheehan had sent an anonymous letter saying he’d put a bomb in the lighting department to show that he could plant one without being detected, and that he’d actually set off bombs in three other Long Island Home Depot stores on Black Friday that year if not paid, federal prosecutors said.
“This is a frightening type of crime” that also was costly for the store, U.S. District Judge Denis Hurley said at Sheehan’s sentencing Friday. Prosecutors said the company spent $1.5 million for additional security guards and other safety measures.