CHICAGO– A man found guilty of plotting to bomb a Chicago bar will spend another 11 years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly on Friday re-sentenced Adel Daoud to 27 years in prison. the Chicago Tribune reported.
U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman originally sentenced Daoud to 16 years in prison in 2019, but a federal appeals court threw that sentence out in 2020, because he felt the sentence was not severe enough, and ordered a new sentence.
Daoud, of the suburb of Hilldale, was arrested in September 2012 in an FBI sting after he pressed a button on a remote control that he thought would detonate a car bomb outside the Cactus Bar & To grill.
Daoud said he wanted to kill at least 100 people, according to government court documents. He was 18 at the time.
Daoud has filed an Alford motiona legal maneuver in which a defendant maintains his innocence but acknowledges that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him if he were to go to trial. He also entered an Alford plea to charges that he solicited the murder of an FBI agent who was taking part in the operation and that he attacked a person he was in custody with with a toothbrush handle after the person had drawn a picture of the Prophet Muhammad.
The Chicago Tribune reported that Daoud represented himself at Friday’s sentencing review, but online court records show attorney Quinn Michaelis is representing him. Michaelis did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking comment on the sentencing review Friday evening.
AP called the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, where Daoud is being held, according to the Chicago Tribune, in an attempt to reach him and offer him a chance to comment. The phone was not answered.