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Joshua Nichols was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery in a 2020 attack in the Las Vegas metro area. Nichols’ father, Terry, is currently serving a life sentence for assisting Timothy McVeigh in his 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Murrah Building, which killed 168 people. The younger Nichols, 40, refused to speak with Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny before sentencing.
The troubled son of Terry Nichols, co-conspirator of the Oklahoma City bombing, was sentenced Wednesday to prison in Nevada for kidnapping and armed robbery during a February 2020 assault on a man in the Las Vegas area.
Joshua Isaac Nichols and a co-defendant, George William Moya III, both entered plea deals in March that avoided a trial that could have led to longer sentences. Moya’s guilty plea was armed robbery. Each was sentenced individually by Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny to their agreed upon sentences.
Nichols and Moya were convicted of luring a 67-year-old jeweler to a vacant house in suburban Henderson and robbing him of money, jewelry, clothing and a cell phone at gunpoint.
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Nichols, 40, refused to speak to the judge before being sentenced to five to more than 17 years in prison.
Moya, 27, apologized to the court and said he took responsibility for his actions before being sentenced to between four and 15 years.
Each man was credited with approximately three years of time already spent in prison, and they were ordered to pay a total of $5,100 in restitution to the man they robbed.
Joshua Nichols, son of Terry Nichols, an accomplice in the Oklahoma City bombing, has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for his role in an armed robbery in February 2020 in Henderson, Nevada. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
Nichols’ plea allowed him to post $50,000 bail to be released from prison under high-level electronic surveillance for 13 weeks while awaiting sentencing. His lawyer, Augustus Claus, said it allowed him to spend time with his wife.
On Tuesday, Claus asked for the sentencing to be stayed, citing what he said were medical reasons. The judge rejected that offer on Wednesday, saying the medical records Claus presented to her showed Nichols was being treated for “minor, not serious” health problems.
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Moya’s attorney, Michael Printy, said out of court that he and Moya were confident the judge had honored the deal with prosecutors.
Nichols moved to Las Vegas with his mother after she divorced Terry Nichols years before the April 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people.
Terry Nichols, 68, is serving multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole for helping Timothy McVeigh carry out the bombing. McVeigh was executed in 2001.
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Joshua Nichols has been arrested and convicted several times over the years in Nevada, and he previously served time in prison for felony convictions dating back to 2005, including armed assault, auto theft, and resisting a police officer. He has acknowledged in the past that he was in treatment for substance abuse.
