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The Justice Department has asked a federal appellate court to keep Amish sect leader Sam Mullet behind bars while he is awaiting trial on federal hate crime charges. A public defender in his appeal says the local Sheriff and the FBI are trying to con... Read the rest of this entry »

Amish sect leader Sam Mullet, accused of orchestrating a series of beard-cutting attacks against other Amish throughout Ohio, will remain jailed pending trial in March on federal hate crimes charges. Mullet is said to have issued death threats in the... Read the rest of this entry »

The jailed leader of a breakaway sect of Amish accused of orchestrating a series of beard-cutting attacks on other Amish across Ohio has again asked a federal judge to let him out pending trial, saying he'll allow electric lines to be installed at his... Read the rest of this entry »

Twelve members of an Amish splinter group in Ohio pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges stemming from a spate of beard- and hair-cutting assaults last fall on other Amish. Read the rest of this entry »

Twelve members of a renegade Amish group were charged with hate crimes in the bizarre beard-cutting attacks on other members of the sect in eastern Ohio, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. Samuel Mullet and 11 members of his group also face charg... Read the rest of this entry »

Three men from an Amish splinter group facing hate crime charges over beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio waived their right to a hearing on Friday and will remain behind bars. On Wednesday, a federal magistrate judge in Youngstown, Ohio den... Read the rest of this entry »

Four members of a breakaway Amish group charged with hate crimes were denied bond Wednesday. The judge ordered them held, calling sect leader Samuel Mullet a danger to the Amish community. Read the rest of this entry »

Members of a breakaway Amish group charged with hate crimes will be arraigned in federal court in Youngstown, Ohio, on Wednesday. The men who were allegedly attacked are believed to be former members of Mullet's group who left over various disagreements. Read the rest of this entry »

Authorities raided the compound of a breakaway Amish group Wednesday morning and arrested seven men on federal hate crime charges in hair-cutting attacks against Amish men and women. Among those arrested were the group's leader, Sam Mullet, and three ... Read the rest of this entry »

An elderly Amish man was attacked by his own son, who a sheriff said cut the man's hair and beard in the latest incident in a breakaway Amish community. The man was attacked while visiting his son in the breakaway Amish community that's home to five ... Read the rest of this entry »