Clinton Office Hostage-Taker Pleads Guilty

Leeland Eisenberg of Somersworth was sentenced to three years in jail, followed by mental health treatment.

AP

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

DOVER, N.H.--

The man who took hostages last year at one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign offices pleaded guilty on Tuesday, and was sentenced to three years in jail, followed by mental health treatment.

Leeland Eisenberg of Somersworth pleaded guilty to kidnapping, criminal threatening and making a false report to police. He's been held at the Strafford County jail since being arrested after entering Clinton's Rochester office last Nov. 30, claiming to have a bomb. No one was hurt in a five-hour standoff and the bomb turned out to be road flares.

Eisenberg apologized in court, saying he hopes to receive some treatment in jail.

The 306 days Eisenberg has been jailed since the incident will be credited to the sentence, meaning he will spend a little more than two more years behind bars, followed by probation, including drug treatment, counseling and treatment for mental illness.

 

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