A California man was sentenced to 25 years in prison after plotting to detonate an incendiary device at a political rally in Long Beach.
Mark Steven Domingo, 28, of Reseda was found guilty on one count of providing material support to terrorists, along with one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, according to a statement from the Department of Justice. Domingo, who had been found guilty in August, had intended to use the device to bomb a white supremacist political rally.
“[Domingo] testified and repeatedly affirmed that he intended to commit mass murder in March and April 2019,” prosecutors wrote in their memorandum, advising Domingo receive life imprisonment.
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The FBI began investigating Domingo after he made comments on online forums in which he supported and pondered violent attacks geared toward Muslims, Jewish people, churches, and police officers. Domingo eventually settled on targeting a rally slated to take place in Long Beach in April 2019, according to the DOJ’s statement.
Prior to this, Domingo had made comments online supporting attacks similar to the October 2017 Las Vegas shooting and the 2019 mass shootings of mosques in New Zealand, according to the DOJ’s statement.
As part of the Long Beach plot, Domingo worked with an accomplice and bombmaker. The accomplice had been working as a double agent with the FBI and the bombmaker had been an undercover FBI agent. Domingo subsequently provided 3 1/2-inch nails to the bombmaker, as material for the supposed devices, according to the DOJ’s statement.
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Prior to the rally, Domingo took his accomplice and the undercover FBI agent to scout the location of the Long Beach rally. On April 26, 2019, Domingo received what he believed to be live explosive devices from an undercover law enforcement official. The devices were actually inactive, according to the DOJ’s statement.
Domingo was arrested the same day while holding one of the explosive devices.
