August 14, 2009 6:30 AM

Black Man Becomes Obama-Hating White Supremacist on Facebook

By
Edecio Martinez
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Cybercrime
(AP PHOTO)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) An African-American man from Mississippi admits posing as a white supremacist to send a death threat across state lines by Facebook.

The U.S. Attorney's Office says 20-year-old Dyron L. Hart of Poplarville pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to making a threat in November 2008.

Hart admitted creating a name and using a white supremacists' photo to pose as a white man who planned to kill blacks because Barack Obama had been elected president.

He originally was charged with threatening three black students at Nicholls State — where he had attended one semester — but pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count.

He sent the threats from a computer in Poplarville.

The maximum sentence is five years in prison and a $250,000 fine; sentencing is Nov. 18.

Why did Hart do this? Frankly we have no idea. He wouldn't friend us on Facebook.


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