Torrance Terrorist's Prison Time Doubles

Torrance Terrorist Levar Haney WashingtonWhen Levar Haney Washington and Gregory Patterson were taken into custody in 2005 after robbing a Torrance gas station, police searched the men's South LA home finding documents that tied them to the terrorist group Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh. Washington had already received 22 years in December for his participation in the plots to attack LAX and local military bases, but when he recently went to court for the robbery and was found guilty (and now for the third time under the state's "three strikes" rules), he earned an another 22 years to his sentence totaling 44 years of prison time.

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