Blotter: Updates On Extremism And The Law
JULY 20
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined neo-Nazi Dennis Mahon鈥檚 request to reverse his 2012 conviction for mailing a letter bomb that injured a black city official and two others at the Scotts颅dale, Ariz., Office of Diversity and Dialogue in 2004. Mahon, who with his twin brother Dennis had ties to the White Aryan Resistance, will be 93 years old when his sentence ends in 2044.
JULY 24
A Marion, N.C., man who allegedly wore a Nazi uniform while conducting 鈥渕ilitary training鈥� for hours on end in a wooded area near his parents鈥� home was arrested on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ordered held without bond. Mark Schmidt, 49, allegedly told an infor颅mant he planned to kill people at work and 鈥渉ave a shooting with the 鈥榩igs鈥� and/or 鈥榝eds.鈥欌�� Officials said they were con颅templating bringing addi颅tional charges.
AUG. 20
A Lincoln County, Neb., jury found longtime white suprem颅acist Rudy Stanko guilty of theft by deception. Stanko, who in the early 1990s was briefly named as the heir apparent to the then-leader of the neo-Nazi World Church of the Creator and who once served time for intentionally selling tainted meat to public schools, had advanced $200 to Geral Pinault to build a web颅site for his Nebraska Beef Company. After researching Stanko, Pinault decided to return the $200 in the form of a money order, which Stanko kept even though he鈥檇 also canceled his $200 check.
AUG. 28
A Rome, Ga., federal judge sentenced three Georgia 尘颈濒颈颅迟颈补 members to 12 years each in prison, after they pleaded guilty to charges of conspir颅acy to use weapons of mass destruction. Terry Eugene Peace, Brian Edward Can颅non and Corey Robert Wil颅liamson plotted to start an 鈥渁ctive revolution against the government鈥� by target颅ing law enforcement agencies and sabotaging power grids, transfer stations and water treatment facilities. The three颅some hoped to spark a decla颅ration of martial law and a subsequent uprising by like颅minded militiamen.
SEPT. 2
A Kansas City federal judge handed down a 20-year sen颅tence to an avionics techni颅cian who tried to explode a car bomb at Wichita鈥檚 Dwight D. Eisenhower National Air颅port. Terry Lee Loewen, 60, who in June pleaded guilty to a single count of attempt颅ing to use a weapon of mass destruction, told an under颅cover agent he was waiting for a 鈥済reen light鈥� from Allah to carry out a suicide attack. He said he was inspired by Al Qaeda鈥檚 Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki.
OCT. 9
A long-haul trucker and for颅mer seminarian at the anti- Semitic Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), a 鈥渞adical traditional颅ist鈥� Catholic religious order, was arrested in Menomonie, Wis., and extradited to Coeur d鈥橝lene, Idaho, to face felony charges of raping two under颅age boys. Kevin G. Sloniker, 30, reportedly admitted to molesting a total of nine boys and is suspected of sexually abusing at least eight more. In 2005, Sloniker was report颅edly expelled from an SSPX seminary for being mentally unstable after he tried to cir颅cumcise himself.
NOV. 5
A Lexington, S.C., judge sen颅tenced August Byron Kreis III, 61, a former 笔别苍苍蝉测濒颅惫补苍颈补 leader in white supremacist groups including the Ku Klux Klan, the Posse Comi颅tatus and the Aryan Nations, to 50 years in prison for one count of criminal sexual conduct involving an child and two of committing lewd acts on a child. 鈥淚 will always hate the Jew,鈥� an unrepentant Kreis, who once proposed an anti-Jewish alliance between Al Qaeda and the Aryan Nations, said at sentencing.
NOV. 10
A judge in Johnson County, Kan., sentenced former Ku Klux Klan leader and White Patriot Party founder Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. to death for mur颅dering three people at two Overland Park Jewish centers in April 2014. Miller, 75, said he shot his victims 鈥� all of whom were Chris颅tian 鈥� because he wanted to kill Jews before he died. In a related case, John Mark Reidle of Aurora, Mo., faces up to 10 years when he is sentenced for acting as a straw buyer for the weapon Miller used.
NOV. 12
An Akron, Ohio, man was arrested after allegedly using social media to call for sup颅port of the Islamic State in September. Terrence J. McNeil, 25, was also accused of posting the addresses of dozens of military person颅nel on a Tumblr account, tell颅ing readers to 鈥淸k]ill them in their own lands, behead them in their own homes, stab them to death as they walk their streets thinking that they are safe.鈥�
