Judge slams 'terrorist' with 15-to-30 years for barn fires

From: Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA | Date: May 8, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

"Do you know what terror is?" Judge Louis J. Farina asked Floyd Hinkle today as Hinkle stood before him in the Lancaster County Courthouse.

It's children fearfully looking out the windows of their home and watching their family's barn burn, the judge said.

It's a family forced to quickly move their belongings, because they're afraid a raging barn fire is going to spread to their home.

It's whole communities worrying and wondering when the next barn will be torched, which happened during a rash of fires set in 2001 in Strasburg and Paradise Township.

"Do you know what terror is? You don't. They ...

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