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...Lancaster County, home to 20,000 Amish who belong to the conservative old order, Stoltzfus, now 24, and Abner King Stoltzfus, 23, who bears no relation to him, were charged with distributing "multiple kilograms" of cocaine and methamphetamine at town dances from 1993 to 1997. And just in case that wasn't enough of a jolt for a public that knows the Amish mostly through the movie Witness, the two Stoltzfuses' names were read in tandem with eight members of the Pagans, including "Twisted" and "Fat Head." Another Amish youth, underage and identified only by the initials C.S., was cited...
Nestled in the rolling hills of Lancaster County, the town of Gap is a sprawling collection of clapboard houses, strip malls and a truck stop named Touch O' Home. Horse and buggies mingle with automobiles and, increasingly, Amish kids whizzing by on Rollerblades. It was here, or more specifically at weekend gatherings held on the outlying farms, that the two Amish men were accused of dealing drugs...
...source of the coke was allegedly the Pagans, who refer to themselves as the One Percenters because they claim to represent an elite--the truly bad. Like the Amish, they wear black and stick to a preferred mode of transportation: Harley-Davidsons. Unlike the Amish, they rely on beatings to keep members in line, and "going to church," a euphemism for their weekly meetings, has nothing to do with godly behavior. In the 1970s and '80s the Pagans racked up charges of murder, extortion and drug dealing, learning discretion the hard way after federal indictments decimated their ranks. Still, with...
...more on guard than the Amish themselves. The twin pressures of their own population growth and suburban sprawl have encroached on their way of life; 40% of the Amish work in jobs unconnected to farming, according to Donald Kraybill, who has written about half a dozen books on Amish social structures. Alert to the influences of the outside or "English" world, the Lancaster County bishops warned their congregations about drugs last fall, writing in an open letter, "Parents, beware the evil changes which your children could or might be going through...
...Most Amish teenagers negotiate rumschpringes safely and grow into adulthood newly eager to commit to the strictures of the church. "They see emptiness" in the English world, says Steven Scott, a research assistant who studies Amish adolescents at Elizabethtown College. "The thrills are not really satisfying. The stability in the Amish community looks more worthwhile." But drugs may change all that. How long can stability last if Time Out lets...