TOLEDO, Ohio -- A white supremacist from Portland, Ore., has pleaded not guilty to charges he mailed a noose to an Ohio civil rights leader.
Thirty-two-year-old Daniel Lee Jones entered his plea during an arraignment in federal court in Toledo on Tuesday. He's charged with mailing a threatening communication and interfering with federally protected activities.
An indictment accuses Jones of using the U.S. mail to send the hangman's noose to Jason Upthegrove, NAACP chapter president in Lima, 70 miles southwest of Toledo. Upthegrove had been outspoken following the fatal 2008 shooting of a black woman by a white Lima police officer during a drug raid.
Jones is the Portland regional director of the American National Socialist Workers Party. He's free on bond.
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