rss feedReport: Man suspected in 2001 firebombing at UW jailed in China on drug charges
A 30-year-old man that U.S. authorities say had a role in making firebombs used in a 2001 attack on the University of Washington has been convicted on drug charges in a mountainous region of China, The New York Times reported Friday.
Justin Solondz will serve a three-year jail sentence issued by a Chinese court in Dali, which is located in Yunnan province. Dali police said they found 33 pounds of marijuana in his rented house, Times reporter Dan Levin wrote.
A local prosecutor said that Solondz, an environmental activist in the United States, also had a “drug laboratory” at his house, according to the newspaper article.
After Solondz, who apparently used two aliases in China, finishes his jail sentence, he will be sent to the United States to stand charges for his reported involvement in an “arson rampage” in Washington, Oregon and California.
