AU.S. District choose in Florida has sentenced a convicted intercourse offender and a former worker of the Jacksonville Jaguars to 20 years in prison.

U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced 53-year-old Samuel Arthur Thompson to 220 years in federal prison for producing, receiving and possessing child intercourse abuse material, and for hacking the jumbotron in the Jacksonville Jaguars’ stadium.

Thompson hacked the jumbotron screen after the Jaguars did no longer extend his employment contract upon mastering he was a registered intercourse offender. The Middle District of Florida verified the sentencing in a release.

Thompson was once convicted of the charges in November 2023, while he was also observed guilty of violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.

The 53-year-old was earlier located guilty of assaulting a 14-year-old boy in Alabama in 1998, and he was once required to register as a sex offender.

Prosecutors targeted how Thompson used to be employed by means of the Jaguars in 2013 to assist design, install and run the big display screen at the EverBank Stadium. The Jaguars thanked prosecutors for their work after the conviction was once sealed in November