San Francisco tow truck operator Jose Vicente Badillo was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for plotting to set his competitors’ trucks on fire in 2023.
The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in a San Francisco federal court. Badillo was indicted on one count of conspiracy to commit arson in March of last year and faced up to 20 years in prison.
“I take full responsibility for what I did,” Badillo told the court during his sentencing hearing. “It won’t happen again, you won’t ever see me here again.”…