Contact:
Willard Young 919-464-4111
(Owensboro, KY) April 18 2009
Harry Young, an 81 year old black farmer who has been protesting what he says is an illegal and unconstitutional foreclosure of his western Kentucky farm, has been arrested on allegations terroristic threatening. The charges reportedly stem from a 5 year old incident where Young allegedly threatened a federal marshal. Young says he has made no terroristic threats.
The incident stems from a disputed debt over a farm loan going back to the late 1970s. Young claims that he never received the proceeds of the loan in question, and has signed documents from the USDA's Farm Service Agency proving the debt has been paid. The farm was auctioned in 2005.
Over the last 2 years, he has received death threats via phone, vandals have shot at his house, supremacists have allegedly tresspassed on his rented fields and have reportedly conducted meetings in his fields, after yanking down gates and cutting locks.
He will reportedly be arraigned in federal court in Owensboro, Kentucky Monday morning.
