Hatchet-Wielding Man Who Lit College Students On Fire Gets No Jail Time In Plea Deal: Report

A man convicted of lighting students on fire at U.C. Berkeley in 2020 is reportedly on track to not serve any jail time for the heinous attack because he agreed to participate in a diversion program for veterans.

The Berkeley Scanner reported that Brandon McGlone, who was convicted of multiple felonies, accepted a plea deal from the Alameda County district attorney’s office and the public defender’s office.

McGlone approached two men eating outside a restaurant, knocked their food off the table and told them he was going to light them on fire, CBS News reported at the time. He allegedly sprayed them with the flammable aerosol lubricant WD-40 as they escaped.

Immediately following the incident, he went into a teahouse where he sprayed the can and lit two people on fire.

Bystanders tried to restrain him but he pulled out a hatchet and threatened them. When police arrived, they found he was carrying other weapons, including knives, a machete, and Molotov cocktails.

If McGlone completes the program then the charges against him will be dismissed and, if he doesn’t, he could face up to eight years in prison.

“He must successfully engage in and complete whatever course of therapy is prescribed by the treatment team and abide by whatever conditions are set forth,” Judge James Cramer said during a hearing on April 28. “If he fails to do so, he could be terminated from the Veterans Treatment Court program and sentence will be imposed.”

During the attacks in September 2020, McGlone told a man that he wanted to “light someone on fire” because “If I don’t get to see my family tonight, someone else doesn’t get to see their family tonight. And I choose you.”

The man said at the time that he had seen a lot of “crazy” homeless people in his life but this situation was different right off the bat because McGlone “seemed dangerous.”

McGlone’s defense attorney at the time tried to cast him as a victim, saying that his actions were the “result of a very dark time, a very bad time” in his life.

Prosecutor Sean Flynn blasted the “horrific” acts of violence that McGlone inflicted on his victims and said that “we’re fortunate that nobody was more seriously hurt.”

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‘What Am I Forgetting?’: ‘Stargate’ Actor Flat Out Refuses To Toe The Hollywood Line On Biden, The Border, And More

“Stargate SG-1” actor Corin Nemec made it clear that he had no interest in toeing the Hollywood line, laying out a series of opinions in one blistering tweet on Saturday.

Nemec shared a gif from “The Wizard of Oz” — showing Dorothy’s neighbor, who would later be revealed as the Wicked With of the West, furiously pedaling her bike — and went on to address everything from the COVID and the crisis at the southern border to Russian collusion and rumors that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had not actually taken his own life in a New York jail cell.

🤣👍 Recap: Wuflu is man-made, laptop is real, Russian Collusion is not real, Intelligence community is corrupt, Boarder is wide open, Globalist Agenda for World Domination is Open Source News, Federal Reserve Bank is broke, Epstien didn't kill himself, what am I forgetting? pic.twitter.com/gjbvenryIn

— Corin Nemec (@imcorinnemec) May 20, 2023

Along with a laughing-face emoji and a thumbs up, Nemec said, “Recap: Wuflu is man-made, laptop is real, Russian Collusion is not real, Intelligence community is corrupt, Boarder [sic] is wide open, Globalist Agenda for World Domination is Open Source News, Federal Reserve Bank is broke, Epstein didn’t kill himself, what am I forgetting?”

Nemec’s assessment comes just days after special counsel John Durham released his final report on the origins of Crossfire Hurricane – the FBI’s investigation into former President Donald Trump and possible collusion between his campaign team and Russia.

Durham concluded that the FBI had taken a number of actions that were outside bureau norms in beginning the investigation – and that there had been no evidence of actual collusion that anyone within the FBI had been able to verify.

“At the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI did not possess any intelligence showing that anyone associated with the Trump campaign was in contact with Russian intelligence officers at any point during the campaign,” the report read.

“Upon receipt of unevaluated intelligence information from Australia, the FBI swiftly opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. In particular, at the direction of Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Peter Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane immediately. Strzok, at a minimum, had pronounced hostile feelings toward Trump.”

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