Amish Men Plead in Narcotics Case
Two Amish men pleaded not guilty to drug-trafficking charges in federal court in Philadelphia. In what investigators described as the first narcotics case to involve the insulated religious sect, Abner Stoltzfus, 24, and Abner King Stoltzfus, 23, were arraigned on charges of selling methamphetamine and cocaine to their peers in Lancaster County from 1992 to 1997. The two men, who are not related, are alleged to have obtained the drugs from the Pagans, an East Coast motorcycle gang. Five members of the Pagans also pleaded not guilty to drug charges at the same hearing.
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