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Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime for Threatening to Firebomb Two Mosques and Shoot Worshippers

FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–February 12, 2016.  The Justice Department announced today that Martin Alan Schnitzler, 43, pleaded guilty to a hate crime in the Middle District of Florida for calling two mosques located in Pinellas County, Florida, and threatening to firebomb the mosques and shoot their congregants.

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Schnitzler pleaded guilty to obstructing persons in the free exercise of religious beliefs for making the violent threats.  As part of his plea, he admitted that on Nov. 13, 2015, he…

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