(Chicago Sun-Times) Adel Daoud was sentenced Monday to 16 years in prison for a decision he made at age 18 — when he pushed what he thought was a detonator that would set off a half-ton car bomb in the Loop.
The detonator was fake. Daoud, of Hillside, was caught up in an FBI sting; he was sitting in the front seat of a car next to an undercover FBI agent when he pushed the button on Sept. 14, 2012.
He was arrested later that day and spent more than six years jailed ahead of Monday’s sentencing hearing, time that will be credited toward his sentence. Daoud’s mother spent most of the hearing either with her head bowed or peering anxiously at U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, pressing a kerchief over her mouth. As the judge addressed Daoud’s conditions of supervised release, which will extend 45 years after his release, his mother smiled at her husband.
