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VA Healthcare visit becomes 250 years prison for Oklahoma man.

Oklahoma City man gets 250 years to life in prison for non-business visit with VA Healthcare employee.

Oklahoma City, OK; A man was sentenced Thursday October 1st to 250 years to life in prison by the United States Supreme Court for having a non-business visit with a VA Healthcare employee at a VA Healthcare center in Oklahoma City.

As seen on video and audio surveillance watched by the FBI, the man allegedly visited the VA healthcare center in early February 2020 to visit the employee whom he claimed used to work at a popular bar & grill in Downtown Oklahoma City. The man also claimed that he had given a week's worth of notice that he was going for a visit. The man had a roughly 7 minute visit with the employee until the room was swarmed by FBI and Homeland Security officers along with SWAT whom arrested the man and the employee.

The man was transported to Federal lockup in Washington, DC to face charges of disrupting the business environment and trespassing on United States Government property. During court, the man said; "I hadn't seen her in over a year. I had the visit planned accordingly, and then you guys had to barge in and destroy my day like that?" But the Judge said; "We don't know what country you think you're from that lets you visit someone at their job, but in the United States of America, it absolutely does not fly at all. We don't care if you gave ten years' notice, you can not visit someone at their job in this country unless it's at a bar, a restaurant, or a nightclub."

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The man was convicted of first-degree disrupting the business environment and felony trespassing on United States Government property and sentenced to two hundred fifty (250) years to life in prison. He is scheduled to begin serving his sentence Monday October 5th and will be eligible for parole November 15th, 2270. The employee was charged with harboring and aiding a non-business visitor and was sentenced to fifty-five (55) years in prison.

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