No one was injured and damage was minor in the pipe-bombings at both the NAACP hall on Jand in the tavern explosion. The pair had explosives, automatic weapons and white-supremacist literature in the trunk of their car, police said. The arrests came a few days after a bombing at a Tacoma NAACP meeting hall. Wooten was arrested with Jeremiah Gordon Knesal, 20, of Auburn, Wash., on July 26, 1993, in Salinas, Calif. District Judge James Ware.Īuthorities say Wooten was a neo-Nazi who was part of a group hoping to ignite a race war through a series of bombings and other hate crimes. Wooten received four years and nine months yesterday in federal court in San Jose, Calif., from U.S. Wayne Paul Wooten Jr., 19, pleaded guilty in February to aiding and abetting the July 22, 1993, bombing of the Elite Tavern. TACOMA - A Tacoma man was sentenced to more than four years in prison for taking part in last year's bombing of a Seattle gay bar and on other explosives and weapons violations.
