Alabama pushes rebel monument case after Louisiana dismissal
Associated PressSELMA, Ala. — An Alabama prosecutor said Wednesday that he had no plans to dismiss an indictment in an unusual ransom plot involving a stolen Confederate monument, despite a decision by prosecutors in Louisiana to drop related charges there. Louisiana prosecutors dropped a charge of possession of stolen property against Warnick, 32, and two others, girlfriend Kathryn Diionno, 24, and Stanley Pate, 35. A message claiming to be from a group called White Lies Matter took responsibility and said the chair would be returned only if the United Daughters of the Confederacy agreed to display a banner at its Virginia headquarters bearing a quote from a Black Liberation Army activist. But New Orleans police said they found the real chair undamaged in early April and arrested Warnick and Diionno, who have a tattoo shop.
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