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Ziegler has been sentenced to five years in prison after committing arson at the Western Service Center. (Shutterstock)
APPLE VALLEY, MN A man has been sentenced to five years in prison for throwing Molotov Cocktails into the Dakota County Western Service Center that damaged the building, the U.S. Attorney s Office for the District of Minnesota announced Thursday.
In a guilty plea, Garrett Patrick Ziegler, 25 of Long Lake, admitted to driving himself and the co-defendant in the case, Fornandous Cortez Henderson, to the Western Service Center in Apple Valley. This center houses multiple court facilities as well as a U.S. Passport center.
Savage man gets 6.5 years in prison for arson at Dakota County courthouse
He and another man were charged in connection to the May 29 fire.
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Garrett Ziegler and Fornandous Henderson.
A Savage man has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison for his role in an arson fire at a Dakota County government building in May.
Fornandous Cortez Henderson, 33, of Savage, was sentenced to 78 months in prison for aiding and abetting arson on Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney s Office said in a news release. He pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting arson on Aug. 26.
He and another man, Garrett Patrick Ziegler, 24, of Long Lake, were charged with arson in June in connection to the May 29 fire.
Updated: Dec. 11, 10:56 a.m. | Posted: Dec. 10, 4:39 p.m.
A judge this week sentenced a Twin Cities man to 6 1/2 years in federal prison for setting fire to a Dakota County government building. Fornandous Cortez Henderson, 33, of Savage, Minn., was the first person to be sentenced for setting fires during the civil unrest that followed the police killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day.
According to court documents, Henderson and his alleged accomplice, Garrett Patrick Ziegler, 25, of Long Lake, Minn., set fire to the Dakota County Western Service Center in Apple Valley on May 29 using Molotov cocktails.
In his guilty plea, Henderson admitted that he set the fire because he’d made court appearances there on unrelated charges and because he was angry at law enforcement over Floyd’s death.