Defendant Sentenced For Cyber Attack On Scientology Website

A press release from the Church of Scientology reports that yesterday a Los Angeles federal district court sentenced Brian Thomas Mettenbrink, convicted of engaging in a cyber attack on Scientology's website, to 12 months in prison and payment of $20,000 restitution. Judge Gary Allen Feess imposed a sentence that is an upward departure from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to protect the public from further criminal conduct. Mettenbrink is the second member of the anti-Scientology group Anonymous to be sentenced for the January 2008 attack. (See prior posting.) The court also required that during probation after serving his prison sentence, Mettenbrink must remain at least 100 yards away from any Church of Scientology.