Enlarge / Screenshot from Trevor Jacob’s YouTube video “I Crashed My Airplane.” (credit score: TrevorJacob on YouTube)
A YouTuber who intentionally crashed a aircraft to “achieve notoriety and become profitable” has agreed to plead responsible to obstructing a federal investigation, the US Division of Justice (DOJ) introduced yesterday. In his plea settlement, California pilot Trevor Jacob admitted to “intentionally destroying” the aircraft wreckage and repeatedly mendacity to officers.
The crimes of destruction and concealment with intent to impede a federal investigation carry a most sentence of 20 years imprisonment and a possible positive of as much as $250,000. The Los Angeles district courtroom could impose a lesser sentence because of the plea deal, although.
Jacob is scheduled to look in courtroom within the coming weeks, the DOJ reported. A DOJ public info officer, Ciaran McEvoy, informed Ars that Jacob has not but pleaded responsible. After an preliminary courtroom look—basically a bond listening to—a change of plea listening to will likely be scheduled. If Jacob pleads responsible at that listening to, a federal decide will schedule a sentencing listening to a number of months later. From there, Jacob would meet with the US Probation Workplace, which is able to draft a confidential pre-sentencing report recommending the sentence that the workplace thinks he deserves. Jacob and the prosecutors can both agree or disagree with that sentencing report, after which, finally, a decide will decide what sentence is imposed.
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