Pair Plead Guilty to Hate Crime
Akram Alshoweat of Oak Lawn and Mohammed Shaban of Hickory Hills each pleaded guilty to one count of felony hate crime Tuesday and were sentenced to 24 months of probation. Other charges were dismissed.
A hate crime and robbery case against two southwestern suburban men that began more than two years ago ended Tuesday, as the pair pleaded guilty to one felony count each of a hate crime. Akram Alshoweat, 24, of Oak Lawn and Mohammed Shaban, 37, of Hickory Hills were each sentenced to 24 months probation by Cook County Judge Colleen Ann Hyland in her Bridgeview courtroom. The two men were charged in connection to a June 28, 2010 incident where police say they attacked a woman they believed to be a lesbian outside a Hickory Hills restaurant. They shouted slurs at the woman in Arabic, and then punched and kicked her as she tried to leave, prosecutors said. However, the men's attorneys contended that the tussle was self-defense against the …
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