U.S. Agent Infiltrated Militia, Lawyer Says
By NICK BUNKLEY
NYT
DETROIT — An undercover federal agent attended training exercises with the Hutaree militia for at least eight months before nine members of the militant Christian group were arrested last weekend and charged with plotting an uprising against the government, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The militia’s leader, David B. Stone Sr., asked the agent to provide explosives that could be used to attack police officers and instructed him to make armor-piercing bombs using pieces of road signs as shrapnel, an assistant United States attorney, Ronald Waterstreet, said at a hearing Wednesday.
Citing the agent’s reports and audio recordings of militia members, Mr. Waterstreet described the militia as a relatively small group of weapons fanatics planning to wage a war against the government and all law enforcement officers, as well as their spouses and children. Mr. Stone wanted to eventually own his own country and had assembled two nine-member squads, led by himself and his son Joshua, to begin by taking over several southern Michigan counties, Mr. Waterstreet said.
The authorities who searched Mr. Stone’s ramshackle trailer, which his lawyer estimated was worth $500, seized 300 pieces of evidence, including explosive materials, bomb-making components and shrapnel, Mr. Waterstreet said.
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NYT
DETROIT — An undercover federal agent attended training exercises with the Hutaree militia for at least eight months before nine members of the militant Christian group were arrested last weekend and charged with plotting an uprising against the government, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The militia’s leader, David B. Stone Sr., asked the agent to provide explosives that could be used to attack police officers and instructed him to make armor-piercing bombs using pieces of road signs as shrapnel, an assistant United States attorney, Ronald Waterstreet, said at a hearing Wednesday.
Citing the agent’s reports and audio recordings of militia members, Mr. Waterstreet described the militia as a relatively small group of weapons fanatics planning to wage a war against the government and all law enforcement officers, as well as their spouses and children. Mr. Stone wanted to eventually own his own country and had assembled two nine-member squads, led by himself and his son Joshua, to begin by taking over several southern Michigan counties, Mr. Waterstreet said.
The authorities who searched Mr. Stone’s ramshackle trailer, which his lawyer estimated was worth $500, seized 300 pieces of evidence, including explosive materials, bomb-making components and shrapnel, Mr. Waterstreet said.
(More here.)
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