2 charged with threatening Chicago priest after mass

Two men were charged with threatening to rob a Chicago priest after mass, police said. The unidentified priest, 73, said the two men followed him into the sacristy after mass last week at a church in the city's Back of the Yards neighborhood. They demanded money, threatening to strike him, the police report. "We'll say you touched us. Read the paper they'll believe us," the police report quoted one suspect as saying. The priest told police he recognized the men from past threats. About four years ago they began to demand money from him, using threats and damaging his car and church windows. Money given in $10 and $20 increments now totals over $10,000, police said. Deandra Little, 22, and Markquis Little, 20, were arrested, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday.