China Scene: North
20 years jail for vandal who tried to extort police
A man was sentenced to 20 years in jail for deliberately causing three fires and two explosions in 16 days to extort 60,000 yuan ($8,782) from the police.
Xu Tai, wrote two extortion letters to the police chief in Siping, a city in Liaoning province, but failed to get a penny from the authorities.
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