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A 52-year-old Oklahoma man was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison for mailing a pipe bomb that was intended for his brother, but ended up injuring his nephew at a Visalia business in September 2009.
Lawyers for Vernon Dale Mustin asked U.S. District Judge Oliver W. Wanger for a lesser sentence, citing Mustin’s untreated mental illness that left him paranoid and delusional.
But Wanger gave Mustin the maximum sentence, saying “it took a high level of mental functioning” to carry out the elaborate scheme.
Mustin’s nephew, Aaron Mustin, suffered flash burns and cuts to his hands and face when he opened a package on Sept. 8, 2009, at Cal-Air Cooling and Heating, the Visalia business he co-owns with his father, Danny Mustin. Danny and Vernon Mustin are brothers.
The package contained five pipe bombs inside a tackle box, but only one went off, prosecutor Karen Escobar said.
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