A Texas teenager has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for setting fire to a synagogue in Austin more than two years ago in an antisemitic attack.

Austin Police DepartmentA federal judge handed a 20-year-old man a 10-year prison sentence for setting the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Austin, Texas, on fire in 2021. Franklin Sechriest, who must also pay a fine of $470,

A Texas man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for a hate crime and arson after he set a local synagogue on fire, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday. Franklin Sechriest, 19, of San Marcos,

A Texas man who set fire to an Austin synagogue in an antisemitic attack two years ago has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Franklin Sechriest, 20, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison in connection with a 2021 fire at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue.

Prosecutors said Franklin Sechriest had committed other racially motivated crimes and demonstrated a "capacity to lie and manipulate."

A San Marcos, Texas, man who pleaded guilty in April to a hate crime and the burning of a synagogue in Austin was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday.