Columbine plan nets 6 months in jail

PLYMOUTH, Mass., Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A young man was sentenced to six months in jail Tuesday for planning to kill students and teachers at a high school in the Boston suburbs.

A judge also imposed two years of probation on Joseph Nee, the Boston Globe reported.

Nee, now 21 and attending a community college, was a student at Marshfield High School when he was arrested in 2004. The case first came to the attention of police when Nee and some of his friends told police that another teenager, a former friend he had quarreled with, was planning to imitate the Columbine, Colo., school massacre.

Investigators arrested Nee a month later after determining that he had also been involved in the plot. The other boy, Tobin Kerns, is already serving a 10-month sentence.

Nee's father, Thomas Nee, is president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association.