Student gets 30 days in jail for bringing bag full of weapons to Trump Tower
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A college student received jail time for bringing a bag of weapons into Trump Tower in New York City last year. (Reuters)
A Baruch College student was convicted Friday of taking a bag full of weapons into Trump Tower and was sentenced to 30 days in jail.
After a nonjury trial, Judge Steven Statsinger found Alexander Wang, 20, guilty of two counts of attempted weapons possession and a slew of violations from the December 2016 incident.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“I’m deeply concerned about the lack of judgment that would bring a person into Trump Tower with those items,” Statsinger said of the student from upstate Poughquag.
The Fifth Avenue high-rise houses the president’s penthouse.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Wang, a self-described “survivalist,” was busted Dec. 12 for trying to enter the building with a bizarre assortment of items: a knife, garrote, handcuffs, water gun, an M-100 firecracker and a black rope.