
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, August 7, 1993                   TAG: 9308070031
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C1   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: ALEXANDRIA                                LENGTH: Short

EX-TECH STUDENT GETS 18 MONTHS FOR MAILING BOMB

A federal judge sentenced a former Virginia Tech student to 18 months in prison Friday for his role in a letter bomb attack last year.

U.S. District Judge Albert Bryan issued the sentence to Felix Huang of Alexandria in addition to three years of supervised release.

Huang, 19, pleaded guilty in June to sending a letter bomb to the service manager of Rosenthal Chevrolet in Arlington.

Huang, a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, was a sophomore at Virginia Tech when he built the device and mailed it along with a note on Nov. 3, according to Kenneth Melson, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

"You and yours may consider this a mere warning. Satisfaction is near," the note threatened.

The device accidentally detonated at the Post Office annex in Shirlington, starting a small fire. No one was injured.

Memo: ran on C2 in the Metro edition.

by CNB