WASHINGTON, DC — An Arizona man has been found guilty of crimes related to his plot to target Christian churches in several states, including Colorado.
A federal jury found Zimnako Salah, 45, of Phoenix, Arizona, guilty of the charges against him following an 11-day trial. He had been accused of strapping a backpack around a toilet in a Christian church in Roseville, California “with the intent to convey a hoax bomb threat and to obstruct the free exercise of religion of the congregants who worshipped there,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release Friday.
The offense was considered a hate crime because Salah had targeted the church due to the religion of the people who worshipped there…