MINNEAPOLIS — A Plymouth man pleaded guilty Wednesday to arson and damage to religious property following fires at two mosques in April 2023.

Jackie Rahm Little, 38, admitted to setting a fire in the bathroom at the Masjid Omar Islamic Center in Minneapolis on April 23, 2023, and then lighting fires in a hallway and stairwell at the Masjid Al-Rahma Mosque in Bloomington the following day.

“When someone sets fire to a house of worship, it is not only a federal crime, it is an attack on the heart of a community,” said acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson in a press release. “Minnesota has endured too many assaults on our sacred spaces. Such hatred and destruction will always be met with federal prosecution as we continue to defend everyone’s right to worship in safety and peace.”

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