One of the criminals was a congresswoman's son.  Otherewise it would
have been felonies for all of them.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12498215/from/RSS/

Lawmaker’s son sentenced for slashing tires
Omokunde, 3 Democratic campaign workers vandalized 100 GOP cars in ’04

Updated: 1:43 p.m. ET April 26, 2006
MILWAUKEE - A congresswoman’s son and three Democratic campaign
workers were sentenced Wednesday to four to six months in jail for
slashing tires outside a Bush-Cheney campaign office on Election Day
2004.

The men pleaded no contest in January to misdemeanor property damage.
A fifth worker was found not guilty.

“This case had to be a public example of what can happen when you
interfere with voters’ rights,” said Milwaukee County Circuit Judge
Michael Brennan, who rejected prosecutors’ recommendation of probation
for the four men.

The state Republican Party had rented more than 100 vehicles to give
rides to voters and poll monitors on Nov. 2, 2004. The cars were
parked outside a GOP campaign office when the tires were punctured.
The vandalism left the drivers scrambling for new vehicles.

Among those sentenced Wednesday were Sowande A. Omokunde, the son of
U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wisconsin, and Michael Pratt, the son of
former acting Milwaukee Mayor Marvin Pratt.

“I love my son very much. I’m very proud of him,” Moore said. “He’s
accepted responsibility.”

Omokunde was sentenced to four months in jail; Pratt and Lewis
Caldwell of Milwaukee were sentenced to six months; and Lavelle
Mohammad of Milwaukee was sentenced to five months. All were granted
work-release privileges.

Brennan also ordered them to pay a $1,000 fine each, in addition to
the $5,317 in total restitution ordered earlier.

The four could have faced up to nine months in jail term and fines of
$10,000.

Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes in the 2004 election ended up going to
Democrat John Kerry.