Missouri man planned to shoot at immigrants, murder federal agents at Mexican border: DOJ
Also: Militia Members Indicted for Conspiracy to Murder Border Patrol Officers and Attempted Murder of FBI Agents (U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri)
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Source: Kansas City Star
Missouri man planned to shoot at immigrants, murder federal agents at Mexican border: DOJ
Luke Nozicka
Thu, June 1, 2023 at 12:23 PM EDT·3 min read
Two self-styled militia members, who were arrested after one shot at FBI agents at the Lake of the Ozarks, planned to travel to Texas shoot at undocumented immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border and murder Border Patrol agents who would have tried to stop them, according to new charges filed against them.
Jonathan O’Dell, 33, of Warsaw in Missouri’s Benton County, and 37-year-old Bryan Perry, of Tennessee, were arrested in October after Perry allegedly fired 11 shots at multiple FBI special agents trying to execute a search warrant at O’Dell’s residence.
At the time, little was known about why the FBI was searching the residence in the 30000 block of US 65 Highway, about 100 miles southeast of Kansas City.
But a 44-count second superseding indictment, returned this week by a federal grand jury in Jefferson City, alleges the men conspired to go “to war with” border patrol agents.
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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/missouri-man-planned-shoot-immigrants-162333380.html
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Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri
Militia Members Indicted for Conspiracy to Murder Border Patrol Officers and Attempted Murder of FBI Agents
Tennessee, Missouri Men Planned to Shoot Immigrants Crossing the Border
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Two members of the self-styled 2nd American Militia who conspired to go “to war with border patrol” have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to a conspiracy to murder Border Patrol officers, which ended in a shootout with FBI agents who arrested them on the eve of their planned trip to the United States – Mexico border.
Bryan C. Perry, 37, of Clarksville, Tennessee, and Jonathan S. O’Dell, 33, of Warsaw, Mo., were charged in a 44-count second superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Jefferson City on Wednesday, May 30. The second superseding indictment replaces prior charges filed against Perry and O’Dell and contains additional charges. Perry and O’Dell remain in federal custody without bond following separate detention hearings in which the court ruled they pose a danger to the community.
The indictment alleges that Perry and O’Dell participated in a conspiracy to murder officers and employees of the United States government. They allegedly planned to travel to Texas to shoot at illegal immigrants crossing the United States – Mexico border. According to the indictment, they also planned to murder officers and employees of the U.S. Border Patrol who would attempt to stop them.
In addition, the indictment also alleges that Perry and O’Dell participated in a conspiracy to assault federal officers and employees and a conspiracy to injure federal officers and employees. The indictment also charges them together in seven counts of the attempted murder of FBI special agents, seven counts of assaulting FBI special agents with a deadly weapon, three counts of assaulting FBI special agents, 14 counts of using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and one count of damaging federal property.
Perry is also charged with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, one count of possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number, ...
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Read more: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/militia-members-indicted-conspiracy-murder-border-patrol-officers-and-attempted-murder
