NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (WLS) -- A former Navy sailor who pleaded guilty to plotting to attack the Naval Station Great Lakes and downtown Chicago has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.

Xuanyu Harry Pang, 38, of North Chicago, is said to have surveilled the base as part of a terror plot. His plan was stopped in 2022 by the FBI.

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Pang pleaded guilty earlier this year in federal court to conspiring and attempting to willfully injure and destroy national defense material, national defense premises, and national defense utilities, with the intent to injure, interfere with, and obstruct the national defense of the United States, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois.

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