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A federal judge sentenced Philip Finn Jr. to 10 years in prison for the firebombing of the Luzerne County Children and Youth building in 2017.
				The sentence imposed Thursday in U.S. District Judge Malachy Mannion in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Scranton, also ordered Finn, 50, of Plains Township to pay $398,756 in restitution for the damage to the building on North Pennsylvania Avenue in Wilkes-Barre and serve three years of supervised release.
				Finn pleaded guilty to a charge of the use of fire to commit stalking, according to the U.S. Attorney&rsquo;s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. A federal grand jury handed up an indictment against him in July 2017. A superseding indictment was filed in May 2019 with an additional charge he attempted to get a witness to withhold information.
				Federal investigators said Finn threw three Molotov cocktails through a window of the building on March 6, 2017 in order to intimidate and harass two Children and Youth employees. He also used social media and his cell phone to harass the employees, the investigators said.
				Three days before the firebombing, Finn accused Children and Youth of trying to take away his 8-year-old daughter when two caseworkers served him with a summons at his residence on Abbott Street.
				Investigators said Finn sent multiple message from his Facebook account to an ex-husband of a caseworker in an attempt to get in contact with the caseworker.
				&ldquo;Listen no one will EVER harm my daughter including your (expletives) wife &#8230; I already have all information about you and your children. If she continues to try to harm my 8 year old daughter which she already has &#8230; you can use your imagination &#8230; , &rdquo; one message said.

Federal prison sentence imposed for firebombing of Luzerne County C&Y building