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LAS VEGAS (AP) Prosecutors: 3 held in Las Vegas on terror charges in right-wing conspiracy to spark violence during protests
LAS VEGAS (AP) Three Nevada men with ties to a loose movement of right-wing extremists advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government have been arrested on terrorism-related charges in what authorities say was a conspiracy to spark violence during recent protests in Las Vegas.
Federal prosecutors say the three white men with U.S. military experience are accused of conspiring to carry out a plan that began in April in conjunction with protests to reopen businesses closed because of the coronavirus and later sought to capitalize on protests over the death of a Minneapolis man in police custody.
They were arrested Saturday on the way to a protest in downtown Las Vegas after filling gas cans at a parking lot and making Molotov cocktails in glass bottles, according to a copy of the criminal complaint obtained by The Associated Press.
The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas on Wednesday said they self-identified as part of the boogaloo movement, which U.S. prosecutors said in the document is a term used by extremists to signify coming civil war and/or fall of civilization.
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Hope the FBI finally rounds up more of these Wannabe's.
leftieNanner
(15,082 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Might as well slit their wrists now because that is all they live for.