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Four men charged with hate crimes against Amish man
November 11, 1997
Web posted at: 9:29 p.m. EST (0229 GMT)MONTELLO, Wisconsin (CNN) -- Four men would each face up to 25 years in prison if convicted of hate crimes for allegedly burning a man's horse-drawn buggy because he is Amish.
Brent Paul, 19, Thomas Jerome, 24, Robert D. Hoel Jr., 20, and Daniel M. Krueger, 22, were charged with theft and criminal damage to property, both felonies, in connection with the case.
Two of them admitted to a sheriff's deputy that they took the buggy from the man's farm and set it on fire November 2, according to a criminal complaint. "We didn't need the wood, we just wanted to mess with them," the complaint quoted Paul as saying.
The hate crime reference adds up to five years in prison to the felony charges and up to one year for most misdemeanors.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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