Prosecutor: CA tattoo parlor firebombed after employees refuse to draw offensive Obama image
By APThursday, February 4, 2010
Calif man to be sentenced for tattoo parlor arson
SALINAS, Calif. — A California man is facing several years in prison after authorities say he threw a Molotov cocktail at a tattoo parlor after employees refused to draw on his chest an offensive image of President Barack Obama.
Monterey County prosecutors say Nathan Augustine of Pacific Grove pleaded no contest to arson Wednesday in connection with the July incident at Creative Visions tattoo parlor in Monterey.
Deputy District Attorney Douglas Matheson says the 36-year-old Augustine also pleaded no contest to a similar incident days later at a restaurant.
After being turned down by employees at the parlor for a tattoo of a swastika and an image of Obama overlaid with crosshairs, Matheson says Augustine later returned and threw the device.
Matheson says Augustine will be sentenced to seven years in prison for both attacks. Sentencing is scheduled for March 12.
