Biography
Steve Hindi is an anti-hunting and animal-rights activist (founder of SHARK, Showing Animals Respect and Kindness) who was sentenced to six months for his protest activities against a hunt in Illinois. A March 6, 1998 prisoner-support listing recorded him held at the McHenry County Jail in Woodstock, Illinois.
Birth-year and photograph sources
- Animal People, December 1996 — identifies Chicago Animal Rights Coalition founder Steve Hindi as 42, supporting 1954 as his birth year.
- Showing Animals Respect and Kindness — identifies Hindi as SHARK president and publishes the profile photograph used here.
In his signed April1997 AnimalPeople statement, Steve Hindi describes actual imprisonment in November1996 for alleged contempt after paragliding between geese and hunters at Woodstock Hunt Club. The PDF native text reads twenty days; the small printed numeral is partly obscured by the advertisement’s prison-bar design. He separately says he remained confined four days after an appellate bond-release order. It is unclear whether those four days are included in the twenty, so no twenty-four-day or thirty-day total is manufactured. The April1997 statement does not print the final discharge date. A later-located November26,1996 Chicago Tribune report, retained by SHARK, says Hindi actually left McHenry County Jail the preceding Monday afternoon (November25) after Judge James Franz set a $50,000 appeal bond. November1996 admission remains MONTH precision and the exact total of this stay remains unknown. This initial stay is separate from the existing1998 custody interval in the same broader prosecution; the old row’s1996 sentencing reference is not reassigned or duplicated as another conviction.
Hindi’s August 13, 2013 letter describes a police traffic stop following his May 19 rodeo visit. He alleged political targeting. This is distinct from Fahnestock’s previous-day arrest; no additional jail term is inferred. Hindi’s letter.
A March5,1998 Chicago Tribune column, based in part on an interview with Hindi from jail, reports a separate four-day jail stay in September1996 followed by release on his own recognizance. It also reports his reincarceration on February4,1998 after the appellate court upheld his contempt conviction. The September stay is distinct from his later November1996 contempt confinement. The earlier signed statement’s ambiguity about twenty days and four additional days is preserved; no exact total is inferred for the November stay.
Chicago Tribune, November26,1996, retained by SHARK; Chicago Tribune, March5,1998, retained by SHARK.
