CLEVELAND (AP) — Three men who pleaded guilty in a plot to bomb a highway bridge should be sentenced as terrorists, making them subject to harsher prison terms, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

U.S. District Court Judge David Dowd’s ruling upheld a government request to impose stricter sentences based on a “terrorist enhancement” for the trio. The ruling that the three were trying to intimidate the government expands their possible sentences from five or six years to 15 to 30 years or more.