She can be contacted at 51 or on Twitter at subscription makes work like this possible. Court records list him as a habitual offender, allowing him to be sentenced to a longer prison term.Īndrea Sahouri covers breaking news for the Des Moines Register. A UNC-Chapel Hill freshman who told police he was attacked by a man who burned his hand and called him an anti-gay slur made a false report, the university says. He faced a maximum of five years in prison for the hate crime and arson charge and a maximum of a year and month for the other two charges, according to Iowa sentencing guidelines. of Ames, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years for the hate crime. The man, Adolfo Martinez, 30, admitted afterward that he had stolen and burned the flag because he doesn’t like gay people.
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More: Amid online outrage, police guard church where gay pride flag theft ended in 16-year sentence KAYSVILLE On the second day of Pride Month, police are investigating a possible hate crime after a rainbow pride flag supporting the LGBTQ community was burned and a derogatory note left. A man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for burning an LGBTQ flag that was flying at a church in central Iowa. Hey, thanks for watching, remember to leave a Like, Comment, Subscribe, And also check out some of my other videos, I think you will like them. Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds said the hate crime charges were added because Martinez is suspected of criminal mischief against someone's property because of "what it represents as far as sexual orientation." NEVADA, Iowa, Decem( LifeSiteNews) A man who was arrested this summer for stealing and then lighting a church’s LGBT rainbow pride flag on fire has been sentenced to. The burning of a rainbow flag a proud symbol of the LGBT movement should be taken as seriously as if the.
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Stringer: This hate crime perpetrated against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is a cowardly attempt at intimidation, and it will not be tolerated. Martinez admitted to police that he lit the banner on fire with lighter fluid and a lighter after stealing it from the church, according to court documents. Statement from Manhattan Borough President Scott M.