Michigan trucker gets 10 years in prison for setting semi-trailer fires

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A Michigan truck driver who was found guilty of setting Swift Transportation equipment on fire as part of a personal vendetta against the company has been sentenced to more than a decade in federal prison.

Viorel Pricop, 66, of Allen Park, was sentenced Friday to 10 years and one month in prison for setting six semi-trailers ablaze in California’s Inland Empire region and High Desert during a 10-month span. Judge Sunshine S. Sykes of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/michigan-trucker-gets-10-years-in-prison-for-setting-semi-trailer-fires

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