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Sep 30, 2008 2:06 pm US/Eastern

Clinton Office Hostage-Taker Pleads Guilty

DOVER, N.H. (AP) ― The man who took six hostages last year at one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's New Hampshire campaign offices has been sentenced to three years in prison, followed by mental health treatment.

Leeland Eisenberg pleaded guilty Tuesday to kidnapping and criminal threatening. He's been held since he was arrested after entering Clinton's office last Nov. 30, claiming to have a bomb.

No one was hurt in a five-hour standoff. The bomb turned out to be road flares.

Eisenberg apologized in court. He has said the suicide plot was inspired by movies and voices in his head.

The 306 days Eisenberg has been jailed since the incident will be credited to the sentence. He was also sentenced to probation, counseling and treatment for mental illness.


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