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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. 30-year-old Adolfo Martinez, according to the Des Moines Register, was arrested after stealing a pride banner and later burning it outside a strip club. 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. An Iowa man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison after setting a local church’s LGBTQ flag on fire this past June. More: Amid online outrage, police guard church where gay pride flag theft ended in 16-year sentence 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."
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Punishment for the students is still being considered, according to reports. But their names were not released publicly. The teens in the video were identified as students of the Granite School District in Kearns, Utah. The video reportedly posted last week shows a young man setting a gay pride flag on fire while a voice is heard saying, “all gays die,” the New York Post reported.