Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening Rangers
A Newberry Springs man who pointed a loaded gun at National Park Service rangers in February pleaded guilty Wednesday to one felony count of assaulting, resisting, intimidating and impeding federal law enforcement officers.
Leo H. Spatziani, 62, pointed a loaded M-1 carbine at park rangers Feb. 12, as they photographed a friend of Spatziani’s operating a trenching machine on federal land in the Mojave National Preserve, according to federal prosecutors. Spatziani was arrested Feb. 17.
He will be sentenced Aug. 15 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, and faces a maximum of 20 years in prison.
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