The fourth and closing man in a harassment marketing campaign of two New Hampshire journalists and their households has been sentenced to jail.
Massachusetts U.S. District Courtroom Choose Indira Talwani sentenced Keenan Saniatan, 36, of Nashua, N.H., to 2 years in jail to be adopted by three years of supervised launch — the shortest of the sentences handed out to the co-conspirators.
He pleaded responsible to expenses of each conspiracy to commit stalking and stalking throughout state strains in September, the identical month he and his three conspirators had been indicted by a federal grand jury.
The marketing campaign during which Saniatan and his co-conspirators threw rocks via home windows and spray-painted coarse phrases — together with a derogatory phrase for girls that begins with a “C” — and the ominous phrase “JUST THE BEGINNING” in purple paint on houses was all in response to a New Hampshire Public Radio report on a person named Eric Spofford, founding father of the Granite Restoration Facilities, in March 2022, based on federal prosecutors.
This protection was seen as not fairly glowing and so “a close personal associate” of the topic hatched the plan. In response to federal regulation enforcement and prosecutors, a person named Eric Labarge enlisted the assistance of Saniatan and two different males, Tucker Cockerline and Michael Waselchuck, to retaliate towards the reporter and her editor.
Saniatan in April 2022 threw a rock at and spray-painted the “C” phrase on the journalist’s residence in Harmony, N.H., based on court docket paperwork, on Labarge’s orders, and he did the identical at her dad and mom’ residence in Hampstead, N.H. Cockerline and Waselchuck vandalized the houses of the opposite sufferer and that particular person’s dad and mom, based on prosecutors, in three separate incidents in April and Might 2022.
Talwani sentenced Labarge final month to 46 months in jail, and sentenced Cockerline and Waselchuck to 27 months and 21 months in jail, respectively, earlier this 12 months. Every could have three years of supervised launch following their sentences.
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