Rick Claggett is a long-time employee of Watermark Media and former board member of both the Metropolitan Business Association and Come Out With Pride. Watermark Publishing Group, founded by publisher Rick Claggett, purchased Watermark in January of 2016. Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years for the hate crime of arson and given a year for reckless use of explosives or fire and 30 days for harassment. NEVADA, Iowa (AP) A man has been imprisoned for burning an LGBTQ flag that was flying at a church in central Iowa. The award-winning newspaper currently maintains offices in Tampa Bay and Orlando and employs a full-time staff of 12, along with several part-time and freelance contributors. Adolfo Martinez, 30, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for burning an Iowa church's LGBTQ flag.
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The Des Moines Register reports that 30-year-old Adolfo Martinez stole an LGBT rainbow flag that was. 2nd degree murderers do less time so we now know that opposing homosexuality is a crime worse than shooting a random stranger in the back of the head. Police say Rosemark torn down the pride flag that had been outside The Blazing Saddle in the East. WOI reports that 32-year-old Daniel Rosemark was arrested after the early Wednesday morning incident. Dyer is an attorney, former board member of the Metropolitan Business Association and Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and current advisory board member of the Harvey Milk Foundation. A man was convicted of burning a rainbow flag in Iowa and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. (AP) An Iowa man has been charged with a hate crime after police say he tore down and burned an LGBTQ flag hanging outside a Des Moines bar. Adolfo Martinez, 30, was sentenced to one year on. A man from Ames, Iowa, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for stealing an LGBT flag from a local church and subsequently burning it, next to a local gay club, The Washington Times reported Thursday. Watermark Media was founded by Tom Dyer in Orlando in 1994, and expanded to Tampa Bay in 1995. The man claimed he had God on his side and that non-believers would agree with him. He was sentenced 16 years for getting shitfaced, stealing the flag from a church, burning it and. No, Adolfo Martinez did not actually hurt or assault anybody in the process of. Jason Clayworth is an investigative reporter at the Des Moines Register.Watermark is a multi-faceted media company using opportunities and innovations to communicate and advance LGBT interests, with a corporate emphasis on professionalism while building strong relationships with our readers, customers and community. Adolfo Martinez wasnt sentenced 16 years for burning a flag. An Iowa man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for stealing and burning a churchs rainbow LGBT pride flag. Court records reviewed by the Register do not indicate that he has filed any further motions linked to his representation in the case. Online court records say 25-year-old Cameron Mayfield was sentenced Wednesday. He did not respond to a request for comment. An Omaha man convicted of burning a gay pride rainbow flag has been given two years of probation. Martinez is currently being held at the Iowa Medical & Classification Center correctional facility in Coralville. She said she believes Martinez was ultimately satisfied with his legal representation. Marcucci said the case was assigned to her before the hate crime enhancement and before her supervisors were aware the case involved issues pertaining to sexuality. Had he ordered the sentences to run concurrently, the incarceration would have totaled 15 years, a slight reduction. Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, was sentenced. Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, Iowa, was sentenced to 15 years for the hate crime of arson, as well as 1 year for the reckless use of explosives or fire, and 30.
He did, however, order Martinez to serve the sentences consecutively. NEVADA, Iowa - A man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for burning an LGBTQ flag that was flying at a church in central Iowa. Van Marel under state sentencing law had little leeway when determining Martinez's penalty.
“I think it’s a very interesting issue in that the First Amendment right to freedom of expression covers things like burning the American flag, but burning the rainbow flag is something that was criminalized,” Marcucci told the Register this month.