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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 14 March 2018

US charges Iowa youth coach who recorded players undressing

By RYAN J. FOLEY The Barnstormers cut
Associated Press ties with Stephen last
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A month when investigators
prominent Iowa basketball searched his home and
coach was jailed Tuesday cabin in northeastern Iowa
on a child pornography and the allegations of se-
charge after telling investi- cret recordings became
gators he secretly record- public. The program, for
ed his adolescent players boys between 5th and
undressing in an attempt to 12th grade, fields teams
monitor their development. in Amateur Athletic Union
The FBI took Greg Stephen, events and is sponsored
until recently the co-direc- by Adidas. Several players
tor of the Iowa Barnstorm- who went on to play Divi-
ers traveling team, into cus- sion 1 college basketball
tody after a judge signed have cycled through the
a warrant charging him organization since its 2005
with knowingly transport- founding.A complaint un-
ing child pornography. The sealed Tuesday alleges
charge carries a minimum Stephen’s former brother-
sentence of 15 years, and in-law came across a USB
up to 30, in prison. recording device in a bath-
Stephen, 42, wore a Barn- room while doing remodel-
stormers T-shirt and jeans ing work in Stephen’s home
during a brief initial ap- in Monticello last month. This 2008 photo shows former Iowa Barnstormers coach Greg Stephen in Des Moines, Iow. Ste-
pearance Tuesday after- The man gave the device phen, a prominent youth basketball coach in Iowa has been arrested and charged in federal
court with knowingly transporting child pornography.
noon at the federal court- to police after viewing digi- (The Des Moines Register/AP/File)
house in Cedar Rapids, tal video files showing teen-
where he was handcuffed age boys disrobing and en-
and shackled. U.S. Magis- tering and exiting a hotel when the device was miss- he made those recordings curiosity involving sexual
trate Judge C.J. Williams bathroom shower. The man ing.Investigators said they in a hotel in Lombard, Illi- development and ado-
ordered Stephen tempo- told police one player fea- found more than 100 clips nois, during a January trip lescent development,”
rarily jailed and scheduled tured in the videos spent of three players, ages 12, to watch a Chicago Bulls according to an affidavit
a hearing Thursday on the night at Stephen’s 13, and 14, stored in folders game. signed by agent Ryan Ked-
whether he should be de- home Feb. 16, and that with their names. Stephen “He stated his purpose for ley of the Iowa Division of
tained pending trial. Stephen became frantic allegedly told investigators creating the videos was for Criminal Investigation.q

Illinois: 3men charged with Minnesota mosque bombing

By MICHAEL TARM the attack was to “scare” nesota, was bombed just Whorter, 29. All are from terview that the three rent-
AMY FORLITI Muslims out of the United before morning prayers on Clarence, a rural commu- ed a pickup in Champaign
Associated Press States. Aug. 5, causing extensive nity 35 miles (56 kilome- and drove to Minnesota
CHICAGO (AP) — Feder- A statement from the U.S. damage although no one ters) north of Champaign- with a plan to bomb the
al authorities on Tuesday attorney’s office in Spring- was injured or killed. There Urbana. A fourth man was mosque, according to a
charged three men from field, Illinois, says the men was an attempt bomb the charged with a gun of- criminal complaint. He said
rural central Illinois with the also are suspected in the Champaign, Illinois, Wom- fense, but he was not iden- they wanted to let Muslims
bombing of a Minnesota attempted bombing of an en’s Health Practice on tified as a suspect bombing know they are not wel-
abortion clinic in Novem- Nov. 7. or attempted bombing. come in the United States
mosque last year and said ber. The three men are identi- and “scare them out of the
one of the suspects told The Dar Al-Farooq Islamic fied as Michael B. Hari, 47; McWhorter allegedly told country,” according notes
an investigator the goal of Center in Bloomington, Min- Joe Morris, 22; Michael Mc- an FBI agent during an in- taken by the FBI.q