A former Butler woman, currently facing a misdemeanor charge in Butler County, was arrested in Allegheny County following an alleged hate crime on Wednesday.

Court records state that Hope A. Gorham, 31, now of Russellton, was charged with felony ethnic intimidation, robbery, conspiracy to robbery, aggravated assault, misdemeanor terroristic threats and recklessly endangering another person after an incident in West Deer Township, Allegheny County, after police said she lured a man to her and Palmer's home, where he was attacked.

Officials said the incident was charged as a hate crime because some of the men involved were reported to have been wearing swastika tattoos and yelling racial slurs at the man.

Gorham was charged along with George Palmer, 32, also of Russellton, and both are currently held in the Allegheny County Jail on $250,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 17 before Magisterial District Judge Tom Swan.

The affidavit of probable cause filed in the case against Gorham states that at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, an officer with the West Deer Township Police spotted a man walking down the middle of the street near the intersection of Michael Road and Little Deer Creek Road, with no shoes.

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