A co-conspirator in the scheme to set fires to Walmarts along the Gulf Coast was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison Thursday.

Sean Bottorff was among a group of eight people involved in setting fire to Walmart stores in Tillman’s Corner, Gulfport, Miss., and Biloxi, Miss., between May 27, 2021 and June 4, 2021.

U.S. District Court Judge Terry Moorer sentenced Bottorff on Thursday in federal court in Mobile.

Bottorff’s punishment includes three years of probation; he was also ordered to pay Walmart nearly $7.3 million in damages.

Bottorff’s sentence was not in federal court records as of Thursday evening but Fox 10 reported the punishment.

The federal indictment against ringleader Jeffrey Sikes and his fellow conspirators alleged they maliciously set the fires “to force Walmart, Inc. to meet demands related to interstate and foreign commerce set forth by the conspirators in their manifesto (identified herein as ‘The Walmart Manifesto.’)”

According to the indictment, the conspirators used accelerants such as lighter fluid to set racks of clothing and other materials on fire. It cites a mix of data to identify participants’ movements, including in-store security camera footage and cell phone data.

Some of those calls include a “burner phone” used to take pictures of a six-page manifesto titled “Declaration of War and Demands for the People” which the indictment says was “Supposedly written by a group called ‘The Veterans Order.’”

According to the indictment, photos of the document were emailed to local news stations in Mobile and the Mississippi coast. The indictment says that the document “references the malicious fires, makes a series of demands on Walmart related to the company’s interstate and foreign commerce business practices, and threatens further malicious fires if Walmart does not comply with the demands. It is signed with a seal pressed into melted red wax.”

The fire set inside the I-65 Service Road Walmart caused an estimated $8.5 million in damage, according to testimony by the store’s senior director John Wimsett. The store was closed for two weeks for cleanup and repair.