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Convicted ethnic intimidator sent to prison for four years
DAYTON — A white Jefferson Twp. man who told his black neighbors he would burn their house down if they didn’t move out of the neighborhood was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday, March 25.
Earl L. McLearran pleaded guilty March 17, to charges of intimidation of a police officer and ethnic intimidation. Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Katherine Huffman told McLearran then that she intended to sentence him to four years.
Huffman also said the parole board could tack on additional prison time because McLearran’s new conviction violates terms of his parole in an earlier case.
Montgomery County sheriff’s deputies arrested McLearran, 39, of 304 Albers Ave., on July 31 after he was accused of yelling a racial slur at neighbor Saundra Ballard’s son and threatening to burn her house because he didn’t want blacks living in the neighborhood. McLearran was jailed.
While Ballard and her sons were testifying against McLearran before a grand jury, her house was set afire. A teenager later was charged as a juvenile with arson in the fire.
McLearran was convicted in 2005 for setting fires to several houses under construction because he didn’t want new houses in his neighborhood that would be occupied by blacks.
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