A white supremacist who vandalized a Florida mosque and left a raw slab of bacon on its doorstep was sentenced to 15 years in prison on a hate crime conviction.
37-year-old Michael Wolfe pleaded guilty on Tuesday to criminal mischief to a place of worship in a case considered a felony hate crime, said Todd Brown, spokesman for Florida’s 18th Judicial District, which includes Brevard and Seminole counties.
Surveillance video shows Wolfe with a shaved head and camouflage clothing breaking windows, cameras and lights with a machete at the mosque in Titusville, Florida, near Cape Canaveral.
The Florida CAIR branch agreed with prosecutors and defense attorneys in determining Wolfe’s sentence, Brown said.
‘The Florida Muslim Community is suffering an unprecedented number of hate crimes,’ Florida CAIR spokesman Wilfredo Ruiz said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
‘Multiple mosques and Islamic institutions have been broken into, vandalized, and even set on fire.’
He was also sentenced to 15 years of probation, to be served after his prison sentence, Brown said.