{"id":19976,"date":"2013-03-11T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19976"},"modified":"2013-03-11T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T20:30:18","slug":"man-gets-240-years-in-2002-nyc-bar-hostage-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19976","title":{"rendered":"Man Gets 240 Years In 2002 NYC Bar Hostage Ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 A man has been sentenced to 240 years in prison for terrorizing patrons at a New York City bar during a bizarre hostage ordeal more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Johnson<\/strong> cursed at the judge and railed about the economy during his sentencing Friday in the 2002 kidnapping at Bar Veloce in the East Village.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Johnson<\/strong> invaded the bar with three pistols, a samurai sword and a container of kerosene. He shot and wounded three people and sprayed kerosene on several customers.<\/p>\n<p>A jury convicted <strong>Johnson<\/strong> last month of charges including attempted murder. Authorities say <strong>Johnson<\/strong>, who is black, targeted white patrons.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 45-year-old\u2019s third trial. The first trial deadlocked in 2004. The second resulted in a conviction and a 240-year prison sentence, but was overturned on appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 A man has been sentenced to 240 years in prison for terrorizing patrons at a New York City bar during a bizarre hostage ordeal more than a decade ago. Steve Johnson cursed at the judge and railed about the economy during his sentencing Friday in the 2002 kidnapping at Bar Veloce in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}