{"id":53376,"date":"2023-06-15T18:45:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T01:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=53376"},"modified":"2023-06-15T18:45:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T01:45:40","slug":"oregon-man-guilty-of-hate-crime-against-transgender-library-employee-and-another-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=53376","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Man Guilty of Hate Crime Against Transgender Library Employee, and Another Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"node-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">An Oregon man pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Boise, Idaho, Thursday to two federal hate crimes, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PybZg4e7FJM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-pr-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">According to court records, on Oct. 8, 2022, while at the Boise Public Library Main Branch in downtown Boise, Matthew Alan Lehigh, 31, approached a transgender library employee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">He called her a slur, punched her, and threatened to stab her. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">A library security staff member intervened, and Lehigh fled into the parking lot. When the security guard attempted to speak to Lehigh in the parking lot, Lehigh got into a car and suddenly accelerated it toward the guard, intending to collide with him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The guard narrowly escaped being struck by jumping behind a concrete barricade at the last moment, and Lehigh fled the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Four days later, while sitting in his car in a public parking lot elsewhere in Boise, Lehigh saw two women walking together towards another vehicle. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Assuming that the women identified as lesbian, Lehigh began shouting threats and slurs at them, then suddenly accelerated his car toward the women, intending to collide with them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The women jumped out of the path of Lehigh\u2019s oncoming car, which struck the other vehicle at a significant speed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53378 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/main_ext1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" \/>The superseding information to which Lehigh pled guilty charges him with one felony violation of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act for the vehicular assault on the library security guard and a second felony violation of the Act for the vehicular assault on the two women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">As part of his plea agreement, Lehigh also admitted that he was responsible for three other anti-LGBTQI+ vandalism and violence in Boise during early October 2022. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Specifically, he admitted to setting fire to a rainbow-striped \u201cpride\u201d flag attached to a residential property in North Boise, breaking several windows at a commercial building jointly occupied by an LGBTQI+ community organization and an LGBTQI+-affirming religious congregation, and punching a grocery store customer after calling him an anti-LGBTQI+ slur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cEveryone, no matter who they are, should be free from senseless violence,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit for the District of Idaho. \u201cI am grateful to the Boise Police Department and the FBI for thoroughly and efficiently investigating this case. And I hope the victims are able to take solace in the fact that the defendant is being held accountable for his hateful and violent acts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Lehigh faces between three years and nearly four years in prison.\u00a0The agreement also requires that Lehigh pay restitution to all victims and that he remains continuously under the care of a clinical psychiatrist upon his release from prison. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Boise Police Department and the Boise Resident Agency of the FBI Salt Lake City Field Office investigated the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Assistant U.S. Attorney Katherine Horwitz for the District of Idaho and Trial Attorney Alec Ward of the Civil Rights Division\u2019s Criminal Section are prosecuting the case. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">To report hate crimes, call the FBI at (208) 344-7843 or the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office at (208) 334-1211.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Oregon man pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Boise, Idaho, Thursday to two federal hate crimes, according to officials. 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