Source: Houston Chronicle

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/1978214

On July 3, 2003 the Houston Chronicle reported that "a 59-year-old Kountze man has pleaded guilty to arson as a hate crime for setting a Pakistani man's gas pump ablaze in 2002. Norman Lee Warden Jr. was sentenced to 16 years in prison... Warden faced up to life in prison if convicted of the charge for a blaze he set at the Buy-N-Bye convenience store in Kountze on May 27, 2002."