White Supremacist Pleads Guilty to Torching Black Family's Home

White power leader Brian Moudry's may be off Joliet's Reed Street for as long as 10 years.

JOLIET, IL -- A local white supremacist pleaded guilty Friday to torching the home of a black family living down the street from his house. Brian Moudry, 36, faces up to 10 years in federal prison when he is sentenced on April 26. He pleaded to using fire to interfere with the housing rights on the basis of race. Moudry admitted to pouring gasoline on the home of a black family and setting fire to the house in June 2007. The family of eight children and one adult was asleep inside but escaped the blaze without injury. According to the plea agreement, Moudry was upset that a black family was renting a house on the same block as his own on Joliet's South Reed Street. He set the fire in hopes of driving them out and to intimidate the owner of…

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