Man Pleads Guilty in MD Arson Case

[MountainLaurel]

One of five young men charged with setting fires that devastated a Charles County subdivision in December pleaded guilty in federal court in Maryland yesterday, admitting that he targeted the housing development because a large number of black people were buying homes there.

During an hour-long hearing in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Jeremy D. Parady, 21, a former volunteer firefighter, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit arson at Hunters Brooke in Indian Head.

Parady admitted that during the early morning hours of Dec. 6, he drove a vehicle from house to house to light the fires.

He acknowledged the accuracy of a statement of facts submitted in court by Assistant U.S. Attorney Donna C. Sanger. The document said Parady "selected or aided and abetted the selection of the Hunters Brooke development as the object of the arsons because he knew or perceived that many of the purchasers of the houses in that development were African-American."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/28/AR2005042801042.html

Wow, we've come so far in 50 years. Bobby Frank Cherry would be so proud.

:sarcasm:

[Stinky The Clown]

1. How many of these little guys are still out there in our back yard?