American who hijacked jet to Cuba gets 20 years

July 18, 2014 01:43

An American who returned from Cuba decades after hijacking a jetliner to the communist island was sentenced today to 20 years in US prison but will be eligible for early release on parole, an acknowledgement by prosecutors of the years he spent behind bars in Cuba.

US District Judge K Michael Moore imposed the sentenced today on William Potts Jr, 57, for the 1984 hijacking of the Piedmont Airlines flight en route from New York to Miami.

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