- Charles Allen Barnes, a 47-year-old man from Lewiston, Maine, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for making race-based threats via social media against a Black family living in his apartment complex.
- Barnes sent a threatening voice message through Facebook, hurling racial slurs and threatening to kill the family.
- According to evidence presented at the sentencing hearing, Barnes harbored long-standing racist views, espoused white supremacist rhetoric online, and had described himself to an acquaintance as a racist skinhead. Read More