A Rochester man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for assaulting a federal officer.
Federal prosecutors say 48-year-old Swyn Nelson got into a dispute with a security officer at the entrance to the Keating Federal Building in downtown Rochester as he went to report to the probation office. Nelson was asked to walk through the metal detector a second time after throwing his personal items into a tray so hard some of them bounced out. Â After walking through the line again, he punched the court security officer in the side of the head.
Nelson was arrested, tried and convicted