New York, NY – A man convicted of threatening a motorist with a handgun while cutting in line at a gas station during the fuel shortage caused by Superstorm Sandy has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Sean Bailey was sentenced Thursday after being convicted in June of criminal possession of a weapon and menacing.
Prosecutors say the victim was waiting in line at a Queens gas station in November 2012 when a car in which Bailey was a passenger cut in front of him. When the victim protested, prosecutors say Bailey exited the vehicle and displayed a handgun and threatened him. The 38-year-old Bailey was arrested after the victim called 911.
In the days after the storm, gas shortages created hourslong lines at gas stations.
As reported by Vos Iz Neias