A federal judge sentenced an Alabama man to nine years in prison on Thursday for detonating an explosive device outside of the state attorney general’s office in Montgomery last February, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 27, of Irondale, Alabama, pleaded guilty to malicious use of an explosive device in August.

“Kyle Calvert attacked the Alabama Attorney General’s Office with a shrapnel-filled explosive and then fled the scene, but this sentence ensures he will not escape accountability for his crime,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a release. “Acts of violence like this one against our public institutions endanger public servants and entire communities, and they must not be tolerated.”

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