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...attired assailants. However, on Monday afternoon, when the perpetrators of the fires appeared in court for sentencing, they were dressed in orange jumpsuits and they claimed to have no racist or devilish designs on the good churchfolk of the state. Matthew Lee Cloyd, 21, Benjamin Moseley, 20 and Russell DeBusk, 20, all white, were drunk and out to use their car headlights to stun and then shoot deer. When that turned into an inebriated fiasco, said DeBusk, "We agreed to break into a church and one of our number decided to light a jar of plastic flowers." Things...
...divert law enforcement. Two firefighters were injured battling the blazes. The young men were found after a massive manhunt tracked a mysterious SUV that left tracks from Cloyd?s specially purchased off-road tires. U.S. District Judge David Proctor sentenced Cloyd and Moseley to eight years and 11 months; DeBusk got seven years. The trio have been ordered to pay the $3.1 million cost to rebuild all nine churches. Proctor ordered participation in a federal substance abuse rehabilitation program to be part of their sentence. In addition, he ordered them to perform 300 hours of community service during the five...
...Update: Cloyd, Moseley and DeBusk had applied for youthful offender status at the state court hearing on April 12. The three were sentenced to 15 years for each arson, 10 years for each burglary and six months for animal cruelty for shooting a cow. They will serve a mandatory two years after their federal sentences are over and no other time "as long as they behave themselves," said Alabama state prosecutor Michael Jackson. Said Jackson: "I feel like justice was served. They?ll be in there long enough to know it was a serious crime...
...Moseley, a student at Birmingham-Southern College, had formerly participated in missions where churches were built. He had been Student Government President and Vice President of the Honor Society in high school. Cloyd was studying to be a physician?s assistant at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. DeBusk was a theater major on scholarship at Birmingham-Southern College. Said Connie Lawley, treasurer of Old Union Baptist Church, "You want to see justice served but at the same time, it's a shame they've ruined their lives...
...plea bargain is reached, however, a lot of Alabamans may feel cheated. After their arrest, Cloyd, DeBusk and Moseley said they had set the first of five fires as a spontaneous joke, then followed it with four more fires intended as cover. Without a trial, all the details of their crimes - and how much planning went into them - may never be known...