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The FBI is expected to join local and state investigators later this week in hunting down whoever burned a cross at the home of a gay Athens man.

The Meigs County Sheriff's Department said federal investigators were called in to help determine if the burning were a hate crime.

If it is, said Sheriff Walter Hickman, it could warrant federal charges.

"Right now we are looking at all angles," Hickman told the The Daily Post-Athenian newspaper. "It's a concern because it's a crime."