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Man indicted for hate crime offenses relating to Arson of Massachusetts predominately Black church

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A federal grand jury on Thursday, February 10, indicted Dushko Vulchev, 45, of Houlton, Maine, on four counts of damage to religious property involving fire and one count of use of fire to commit a federal felony in connection with a fire that destroyed a predominately Black church in Springfield.

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Authorities previously charged Vulchev in April 2021, four months after the December 28, 2020, fire at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Presbyterian Church.

Court documents revealed that the fire, which caused significant damage to the building, was related to the arsons and malicious damage to vehicles that previously occurred on church property and the surrounding area.

Those incidents included a fire at the backdoor of the MLK Church on Dec. 13, 2020, and two additional fires near the backdoor of the church on Dec. 15, 2020.

According to a news release, authorities later determined that Vulchev was the culprit after reviewing video surveillance.

According to court documents, during a search of Vulchev’s vehicle, multiple electronic storage devices containing images demonstrating Vulchev’s racial animus toward Black people, including a “White Lives Matter” mural and a photo of Adolf Hitler in a track suit were seized. Vulchev’s electronic devices also allegedly contained messages revealing Vulchev’s hatred of Black people dating back several years, with Vulchev’s recent messages from December 2020 calling to “eliminate all N****s.”

According to the court documents, individuals familiar with Vulchev told law enforcement that Vulchev frequently displayed racial animus towards non-whites and routinely referred to Black people using a racial epithet.

The charge of damage to religious property involving fire provides for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.

The charge of use of fire to commit a federal felony provides for a sentence of at least 10 years in prison, in addition to any sentence received for the other charged crimes.

Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
The news release revealed that the case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Deepika Bains Shukla, Chief of Rollins’s Springfield Branch Office and Trial Attorney Kyle Boynton of the Civil Rights Division.

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