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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Two men indicted in connection with a break-in at a South Jordan mink farm last summer and a similar attempt at another mink operation two months later have pleaded not guilty.
William James Viehl, 22, of Layton, and Alex Jason Hall, 20, of Ogden, entered the pleas on Friday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells.
A trial has been set for May 11.
In August, hundreds of mink were released and breeding records destroyed at the McMullin mink farm. Shortly afterward, the Animal Liberation Front posted a statement from a "local soldier out of Utah" taking credit for the incident.
Each man faces a felony charge of damage and interference with animal enterprises. Each also faces a misdemeanor.
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