MARQUETTE, Michigan – A 23-year-old man with ties to a white supremacist group was convicted of defacing a Jewish synagogue in Hancock, Michigan with Neo-Nazi symbols, announced Mark Totten, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan. A federal jury convicted Nathan Weeden, of Houghton, on Thursday for conspiring with others to deface Temple Jacob with swastikas and symbols associated with The Base, a multi-state, white supremacist group. “Today’s swift conviction sends a strong message that hate will not be tolerated in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,” Totten said. “No one should be the target of hate because of their race,...