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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, June 15, 2023 Oregon Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime Charges for Bias-Motivated Attacks in Boise An Oregon man pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Boise, Idaho, today to two federal hate crimes. According to court records, on Oct. 8, 2022, while at the Boise Public Library Main Branch in downtown Boise, Matthew Alan Lehigh, 31, approached a transgender library employee, called her a slur, punched her and threatened to stab her. A member of the library’s security staff intervened, and Lehigh fled into the parking lot. When the security guard attempted to speak to Lehigh in the parking lot, Lehigh got into a car and suddenly accelerated it toward the guard, intending to collide with him. The guard narrowly escaped being struck by jumping behind a concrete barricade at the last moment, and Lehigh fled the scene. Four days later, while sitting in his car in a public parking lot elsewhere in Boise, Lehigh saw two women walking together towards ..