Jason Leigh Released [news]
From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:04:00 -0800
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Source: Waco Tribune-Herald
http://www.accesswaco.com/news/september/091506.html
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Leigh released to halfway house
By TOMMY WITHERSPOON, Tribune-Herald staff writer
The former Cleburne man who pleaded guilty Sept. 3 to federal weapons
violations after crashing his truck into the Veterans Affairs Regional
Office in March was released from custody Tuesday and will live in a
halfway house two blocks from the VA until he is sentenced.
Jason Leigh, 49, who apologized to the people of Waco for his actions
earlier this month, was released to the Salvation Army halfway house at
500 S. Fourth St. A bond hearing set for Tuesday to determine his
detention status was canceled after federal prosecutors did not oppose
his release pending sentencing.
"Basically, all his psychiatric evaluations came back and nobody
anticipates he will be a threat to anybody in the future," Leigh's
attorney, Rod Goble, said. "He was going on 50 years and had never done
anything wrong, and this is the next process, to see how he does under
the supervision of the halfway house. But I really do not believe he is
a danger to a soul. He is very nice, very likeable, very intelligent
and very remorseful."
As a condition of Leigh's release to the halfway house, U.S. District
Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. ordered Leigh not to enter the nearby VA
Regional Office property at 701 Clay Ave., to submit to drug testing
and to possess no firearms or other weapons.
Leigh had two weapons with him when he drove his Jeep Cherokee into the
VA building March 8 and claimed to have a bomb. He pleaded guilty to
possession of a firearm in a federal facility during the commission of
a crime and should be sentenced in two to three months. He faces up to
five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
Leigh, who moved to Denton shortly before the incident, portrayed
himself as a Vietnam War veteran and a former member of the elite Navy
SEALS. Both claims proved to be false, although Leigh did have a brief
military career, according to records.
He also has said that he videotaped a UFO over a golf course in
Cleburne and has falsely claimed to have a doctorate in philosophy.
In a letter to the Tribune-Herald dated Sept. 4, Leigh said that he is
an "honorably discharged, disabled veteran of the Hawaiian Armed
Services Police, being a master-at-arms." Leigh claims in the letter
that the VA owes him $1 million in back benefits for service-connected
disabilities, which he was going to donate to "SOS" (Save Our
Soldiers), a fund he said he began the day he crashed into the VA
building to benefit the "8 million homeless veterans in our nation."
After he drove through a sliding-glass door at the VA building, Leigh
threatened to blow up the building unless $1 million was placed in a
Swiss bank account, with former President Jimmy Carter administering
the fund, officials have said. He staged a 14-hour standoff with police
to rally attention to the plight of homeless veterans and out of
frustration over his dealings with the VA, he said.
Leigh surrendered to police and underwent psychological testing to
determine his competency to stand trial. Authorities found a pistol in
his vehicle and a rifle in the building, but no explosives.
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