Toomer's Corner on Fire

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Jochen Wiest, 29, was arrested early on September 25 on a warrant charging him with desecration of a venerable object, Auburn police said.

The arrest was the result of an investigation by Auburn Police after a report of someone setting fire to the one of the oak trees at the intersection of College Street and Magnolia Avenue.

Wiest, who is not affiliated with the university, developed as a suspect and was immediately taken into custody while still in the area on an unrelated charge of public intoxication

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@_sam_butler where's Harvey???


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Harvey Updyke Retweeted Aaron Sanderson

At ur moms house

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Oak Lives Matter??

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Oak Lives Matter??

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Tickets to the game - $100

Parking - $200

Vienna Weenies and Soady Crackers - $3

400 Pack of Natty Light and a War Chicken sign - $12.14

Sacred Tree Set on fire by an Auburn Fan - priceless.

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Crazy actions by a drunk fan.

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Information is finally coming to light about Jochen Wiest, the man accused of setting the fire to the W. Magnolia Ave. oak tree at Toomer's Corner in Auburn following Saturday's game between Auburn and LS

Wiest was charged with first-degree criminal mischief, a felony, in addition to the prior misdemeanor charges of desecration of a venerable object and public intoxication.

Wiest, 29 is an employee of Baxter International, an Illinois-based health care company, and works at the company's plant in Opelika. He has been suspended.

Wiest is from Germany and his posts shared publicly were written in German.
Herron Taylor, the Auburn student who confronted Wiest as he tried to flee the scene, and her boyfriend said Wiest and the people who were with him at Toomer's Corner were all speaking German.

Wiest's Facebook profile indicated he is married and his wife listed that she lived in Germany.

Wiest resides in Auburn and according to police he is "not affiliated with Auburn University."

and apparently Louisiana State University

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Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones told AL.com Wiest, 29, was released on $4,500 bond Tuesday. Records show an employee at Baxter International, the health care company that suspended Wiest from his job at its plant in Opelika, posted his bail.

Per conditions of his release, Wiest, a native of Haigerloch, Germany, had to surrender his passport to authorities and was also ordered not to leave the state.

Would have been a good time to celebrate Octoberfest -- in Munich.

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Wiest was charged with first-degree criminal mischief, a felony, in addition to the prior misdemeanor charges of desecration of a venerable object and public intoxication.

The felony charge resulted in a change in jurisdictions for the case against Wiest, which will now be tried in Lee County Circuit Court, where he is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Oct. 19.

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Jochen Wiest, the German man who set the tree fire at Toomer's Corner following Auburn's win over LSU earlier this fall, did not have his passport returned from local authorities during a bond hearing on Wednesday, though he has agreed to plead guilty to all charges.

Lee County District Court judge Steven Speakman, who served as an acting Circuit Court judge for Wednesday's hearing, denied Wiest's request because there is no way for the state of Alabama to ensure the 29-year-old would return from his native Germany for a pending plea hearing.

"I fear the possibility that (Wiest) returns to Germany and ... could stay in Germany and simply forfeit the money (for damages)," Speakman said. "I am very hesitant to return the passport under those circumstances. Given that we've got an application to plead guilty on information I do believe that it won't be too long before a plea hearing is set (in Circuit Court) - sometime in the month of January, I would expect.

'Therefore, given that we can't guarantee - rock solid guarantee - the return of (Wiest), I'm not going to return the passport at this time."

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Jochen Wiest, the 29-year-old German man who set the tree fire at Toomer's Corner following Auburn's win over LSU, entered a guilty plea to felony first-degree criminal mischief in Lee County Circuit Court Thursday morning stemming from the Sept. 25 incident.

Lee County Circuit Court judge Jacoby Walker III sentenced Wiest to a three-year suspended sentence, which had been agreed to by his attorney and the Lee County district attorney's office, five years probation and ordered Wiest to pay $20,807 in restitution to Auburn University to replace the damaged tree on W. Magnolia Ave, as outlined by Auburn professor of horticulture Dr. Gary Keever, a $1,000 fine and court costs.

Auburn University interim director of public safety Chance Corbett asked the court for a trespassing ban for Wiest from the university, which was also entered.

"I'm sorry," Wiest said after admitting he lit the fire in court...

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Auburn commit Alaric Williams, a 4-star athlete from Ashville, Ala., decided to have some fun with Alabama's misery on Twitter early Tuesday morning, reminding Clemson fans to be wary of Alabama fans like Harvey Updyke

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