Megan's Law Shooting

A Linden man who hoped to scare a paroled high-risk sex offender from his neighborhood faces up to ten years in prison. James Johnson pleaded guilty Monday to charges stemming from the first known case of vigilantism since New Jersey fully enacted Megan's Law in January. No one was hurt when Johnson fired five shots at the building where Frank Penna lived. Some bullets narrowly missed a neighbor in an upstairs apartment. Authorities had recently alerted neighbors to Penna's whereabouts under Megan's Law. Johnson had been on parole for armed robbery at the time of the June shooting. He'll be sentenced in February and remains in Union County Jail on 150 thousand dollars bail.