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Monday, March 08, 2010
Fostorian's terrorism trial begins todayCharles Papenfus, 43, listed at 914 Leonard St., is facing charges of making terrorist threats in St. Louis, Mo. In an unrelated case, Glenn E. Loy, 37, listed at 1212 42nd St., will appear in Hancock County Court of Common Pleas on two breaking and entering charges.
According to court records, Papenfus allegedly told a sales representative during a May 18, 2009 phone call he would burn down the representative’s place of employment and kill the employees and their families.
The business, located at 300 N. Tucker St. in St. Louis, pressed charges and Jennifer M. Joyce, circuit attorney in St. Louis, released a statement claiming Papenfus initiated the call.
“During this call, he named specific employees he would be targeting for this destructive behavior,” according to the statement.
Papenfus was indicted June 18, 2009 and he was extradited to St. Louis July 2. His bond was set at $45,000, but later reduced to $5,000.
Papenfus’ wife, Tracie, claimed her husband was lured to the Fostoria Police Department in order to arrest and extradite him, but Fostoria Police Chief John McGuire refuted those claims and said Papenfus came in on his own to speak to an officer. During a routine check, the warrant from St. Louis appeared and officers were required to arrest him.
“Once we confirmed the warrant was valid, we took him into custody,” McGuire said at the time.
Initially, public reaction on the stltoday.com Web site strongly sided with Papenfus, but Joyce explained in her statement why the case was being treated as it was.
“This office has an obligation to take threatening statements like these seriously and we have proceeded accordingly,” Joyce stated in her media release.
Loy’s trial is also set to begin today on two charges of breaking and entering. He was accused of breaking into the Lighthouse and Youth for Christ, both in Findlay.
Loy was arrested with James J. Potter, 49, listed at 1020 Buckley St., in May while coming out of a church in Wyandot County together.
Potter was sentenced to a two-year and nine-month prison sentence in Wyandot County for three counts of breaking and entering and recently ordered to a concurrent six-month sentence in Hancock County after pleading guilty to attempted breaking and entering.
Loy was sentenced to 11 months in prison through Wyandot County for complicity to breaking and entering. Two other charges of complicity and a charge of possession of criminal tools were dismissed.
Potter and Loy were suspected of committing 10 to 15 crimes of breaking and entering throughout Fostoria, Tiffin, Fremont, Carey and Upper Sandusky at the time of their arrest. It was also suspected they broke into homes, businesses and churches throughout Seneca, Sandusky and Wyandot counties.
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