Jeremy Heath Higgins, Threatening, Alabama 2014
A 28-year-old man from Quinton, Alabama, pleaded guilty to threatening a couple at a local restaurant due to racial bias.
Jeremy Heath Higgins, a resident of Quinton, Alabama, pleaded guilty to two counts of federal civil rights violations, announced the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Alabama.
As part of the plea proceedings, Higgins admitted that on June 14, 2013, he approached and threatened an African-American man at the Alabama Rose Steakhouse, a restaurant in Quinton, Alabama, because the man was present at the restaurant with a white woman.
He soon left the bar with the woman. A manager at the Alabama Rose Steakhouse confronted Higgins because of his behavior toward the African-American man and ordered Higgins to leave the restaurant. As Higgins was being escorted from the bar, he used racial slurs, shouted a racial slur at the restaurant manager, and threatened to burn down the Alabama Rose Steakhouse.
Later that evening, Higgins returned to the restaurant and threatened the restaurant manager by painting graffiti on the restaurant's front exterior and fence.
Sentencing in this case is set for January 9, 2015.
Higgins' crimes include two counts of federal civil rights violations.
The incident occurred in Quinton, Alabama, on June 14, 2013.
Higgins is set to be sentenced on January 9, 2015.
Key Facts
- State: Alabama
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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