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Student Gets Probation for Machine Gun Threat
Updated: Friday, 09 Dec 2011, 8:26 PM EST
Published : Friday, 09 Dec 2011, 12:51 PM EST
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DETROIT (AP) -- An honors student who threatened to shoot up Wayne State University with a machine gun has been sentenced to probation, avoiding a possible one-year prison sentence.
Ali Saad's online threat a year ago turned out to be false but no one knew it at the time.
Federal prosecutors on Friday recommended probation and six months of home confinement with an electronic tether. Federal Judge Stephen Murphy III said a tether wasn't necessary, but Saad must live with parents and follow a curfew for at least a year.
The 20-year-old Dearborn man apologized for his actions. Saad got a significant break. Authorities found images of child pornography on his computer but didn't pursue charges.
He now is a student at the University of Michigan in Dearborn.
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