(FW) – The small town of Moscow, Idaho, is continuing to live up to its name. This latest dust-up — the second in less than a year — centers on 18-year-old Rory Wilson, a college-aged student whose educational aspirations were sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in him enrolling in classes at the close-to-home New St. Andrews College.
Rory Wilson and his 14-year-old brother are now facing 13 criminal misdemeanors — charges that flow from an ordinance that has reportedly never been used to prosecute anyone in the city.
The teenagers’ dad, Nate Wilson, who is also facing a charge for “aiding and abetting” his kids, told Faithwire over the phone Tuesday he believes there’s “no way” the trumped up charges are anything more than, as he put it, “[The city attorneys] want to get a Wilson trophy. They want to bag themselves a Wilson.”
Rory Wilson, the valedictorian of his graduating class, was walking across campus last semester when police officers pulled him aside and allegedly threatened him with jail time for standing too close to his cousin, according to a press release published Monday. That encounter with police sparked within Rory Wilson an opposition to the ongoing mask mandate in Moscow, an order the mayor, Bill Lambert, has indefinitely extended using his emergency powers. READ MORE
