White supremacist who terrorized North Dakota town gets probation

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A North Dakota judge sentenced a white supremacist today (4/29) to four years of probation but no additional jail time for terrorizing residents of the small community of Leith, where he tried unsuccessfully to establish an all-white enclave and has left behind a legacy of fear.

Craig Cobb, 62, has been jailed since mid-November when he was arrested on seven felony terrorizing counts for scaring residents while patrolling Leith with a gun.

He was due to be a free man later on Tuesday after going through the jail release process - a reality that scares officials in Leith.

'Now we've got this lunatic out on the street again,' City Councilman Lee Cook said after the sentencing.

Cobb - who says he is not a violent man - moved to Leith more than two years ago, bought a house and 12 other lots, and encouraged other white supremacists to join him to create a voting majority in the community of about two dozen residents. In August, he publicized his plans to fill the town with other white supremacists and take over the town government.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2616069/White-supremacist-gets-probation-North-Dakota.html

[malaise]

1. Next time give him some weed or some crack cocaine

He'll get 20 to life

[Generic Other]

2. He and his cohorts really were creepy enough without crack

armed to the teeth, bullying the locals. Racist losers.

[malaise]

3. I agree but he still got a pass

Should have been sent to prison

[Fred Sanders]

4. He is moving in with his mom in Missouri.

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Cobb said he now plans to seek permission to move to Missouri to care for his mother.

'I regret my actions. I know I was wrong and I accept responsibility for my actions. It was an unfortunate confluence of circumstances and bad decisions on my part,' Cobb told the court.
Cobb said earlier this month that he plans to 'retire from white nationalism' because he's tired of the spotlight.
Cobb had said earlier that he brandished a gun in Leith in response to violence and harassment directed toward him. He no longer owns any property in Leith, and in late February he pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor menacing counts and one felony terrorizing charge. The original charges against Cobb carried a maximum punishment of 30 years in prison.
The terms of Cobb's probation bar him from having contact with victims, but Cook, one of the victims in the case, said he had been given no information on where Cobb will be going. He and mayor Schock said they worry whether the town will be safe - especially since Cobb gave three of his Leith lots to white separatist Tom Metzger, National Socialist Movement Commander Jeff Schoep and white supremacist Alex Linder.
'It's a failure of justice,' Cook said. 'This guy gets off. He made our lives a living hell and now he's walking the streets again.'
Schwarz said outside the courtroom that he did not know where Cobb would go, but that Cobb would be monitored by GPS.