CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – An Ohio appeals court has overturned the hate-crime convictions of a rogue Amish group convicted in a series of beard cutting attacks. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati agreed Wednesday with attorneys for the Amish, who have been in jail since 2013. It said the jury’s instructions on how to weigh the […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A rogue Amish group convicted in a series of beard cutting attacks was sentenced to prison on Friday. Amish beard bandit leader Sam Mullet was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The judge said Mullet is a danger to the community due to the control he has over his followers. The judge mentioned jail house tapes […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A jury has convicted a rogue Amish group in a series of violent hair-cutting attacks on other members of the Amish community. Nearly 20 men, including Bishop Sam Mullet, were convicted of committing a hate crime and conspiracy. The hate crime conviction carries a minimum prison sentence of 20 years in jail. After a […]
(WOIO) – Prosecutors in the trial for the so-called Amish beard bandits continue to call witnesses. The trial for more than a dozen members of a break-away Amish group is playing out in a Cleveland Federal Court in front of the Amish community. The 16 men face federal hate crime charges for a series of […]
HOLMES COUNTY, OH (WOIO) – The FBI has charged seven members of the Amish community with federal hate crime charges for attacks against their fellow Amish. The criminal complaint charges Samuel Mullet Sr., Johnny S. Mullet, Daniel S. Mullet, Levi F. Miller, Eli M. Miller and Emanuel Schrock, all of Bergholz, Ohio; and Lester S. […]
Members of the Amish community in eastern Ohio are the subject of a federal investigation following a wave of Amish-on-Amish incidents, FBI spokeswoman Vicki Anderson confirmed to CNN Wednesday. Five men have been arrested and charged with kidnapping and burglary stemming from an incident at the home of Myron and Arlene Miller in early October […]
STEUBENVILLE, OH (WOIO) – The strange beard-cutting crime in Holmes County heads to a grand jury. All five men appeared in a Holmes County Municipal Court. The men are accused of breaking into homes of Amish families and cutting the victims’ beards and hair. The men – who are all part of the “Bergholz Clan – are […]
HOLMES COUNTY, OH (WOIO) – Two more Amish men have been arrested in violent beard and hair cutting attacks. The Holmes County Sheriff says 32-year-old Eli Miller and 37-year-old Daniel Mullet turned themselves in on Wednesday, and are charged with kidnapping and aggravated burglary. A total of five Amish men have been charged in the hair-raising […]
Three Amish men accused of cutting off the beards and hair of Amish men and women, went before a Jefferson County Court Judge Tuesday. Levi Miller, 53; Johnny Mullet, 38; and Lester Mullet, 26, all waived extradition to Holmes County. They are charged with kidnapping and aggravated burglary. Miller, Mullet and Mullet -are all part of […]
(WOIO) – A 77-year-old Amish man accused of defrauding his fellow Amish of millions of dollars. Monroe Beachy of Sugarcreek, Ohio was indicted today on mail fraud. He ran his own investment company, A & M Investments. Beachy is accused of operating an investment scheme that defrauded nearly 2,700 people in 29 states of more than $16 […]