While sentencing a Vancouver man to 18 years in prison for what he described as two car bombings, Judge David Gregerson told the defendant his case is disturbing and hard to forget.
“This was … you spinning out of control,” Gregerson said to Pedro Franco-Gonzalez during his hearing Thursday in Clark County Superior Court.
The 22-year-old blew up two vehicles with improvised explosive devices at an east Vancouver apartment complex in July and October. His intended target was a vehicle belonging to his girlfriend’s friend, with whom he was in an ongoing dispute over money and her interference in his relationship, court records state.
No one was injured in either incident.