(April 26) — A former FBI agent was sentenced today in California to 30 years in prison for plotting a violent home invasion of a suspected drug stash house in Orange County in what turned out to be an FBI sting.
Vo Duong Tran, 42, of New Orleans, was convicted in March 2009 of plotting the robbery with an accomplice, Yu Sung Park. Park, 36, of Wilmette, Ill., was also sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif., to 30 years in prison.
Tran worked for the FBI’s Chicago Division from 1992 to April 2003.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, Tran organized and Park schemed “to commit a violent home-invasion robbery” of a home in the middle-class community of Fountain Valley, Calif. They thought the home was a base for a drug-trafficking organization and was flush with drugs and cash, prosecutors said. But the home was actually vacant.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office said the FBI arrested Tran and Park after the meeting and searched their hotel room, where agents found five firearms, including a machine gun, a silencer-equipped assault rifle and a .22-caliber handgun with an integrated silencer; ammunition; two bulletproof vests; camouflage clothing; and devices to handcuff anyone found inside the home.
Didn’t hear anything about this on the news…
a lot deeper than the “Armageddon weapons cache” Guy a few months back but no word… ?
