Nearly 7 years in prison for Twin Cities man accused of stockpiling for armed police conflict

A Twin Cities man will spend nearly 7 years in federal prison after being caught trying to buy machine gun conversion devices from an FBI informant in a probe that also recorded him celebrating mass shootings and considering armed conflicts with police.

Senior U.S. District Judge David Doty on Tuesday sentenced River William Smith, 21, of Savage, to 80 months after intense scrutiny of Smith's recorded statements to informants throughout the investigation and suggestions of helping Russians kill Americans in Ukraine once he's released from prison. But Doty declined the government's request for a maximum 10-year sentence and did not side with prosecutors' arguments that Smith's actions amounted to terroristic conduct.

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