News Roundup for July 15, 2011
An Illinois man who claimed to be a part of a militia sleeper cell聽 to possession of illegal firearms and threatening his wife. Lowell Aughenbaugh, 48, had threatened to injure his wife, with whom he is in divorce proceedings. A search of the home of Aughenbaugh鈥檚 father revealed nearly 91 guns, including 15 classified as machine guns. Aughenbaugh is already under indictment for making a terrorist threat related to an ATF search of his business which prompted a 12-hour standoff with agents.
A New York woman was the victim of a according to Niagara Falls Police. Two women reportedly assaulted a woman of Pakistani origin while calling her ethnic and racial slurs. One woman has been arrested, while police are searching for the other.
The trial of a California man his possible links to white supremacists. Nicholas Klopp is on trial for allegedly punching a man after making derogatory slurs about gays at a birthday party for a man who is gay.聽 Klopp then left in the truck of a friend who is a well-known white supremacist. Police also seized from the Klopp鈥檚 house white supremacist literature and music, pictures of Hitler, and skinhead T-shirts, which Klopp鈥檚 wife claims belonged to her deceased brother.
A convicted hate crime murderer a life sentence for the unsolved killing of an acquaintance. Dale Mardis, 57, admitted to killing Henry Ackerman in 1998 with a hammer after an argument, and burning his body. Mardis is currently serving a life sentence for the 2001 killing of Mickey Wright, a Shelby County, Tenn., code enforcement officer, which was ruled a hate crime.
A routine traffic violation in a Tennessee courtroom. Joseph Augustine Dattilo Jr. was taken into custody because of an improper vehicle tag and lack of proper identification. Dattilo responded to the charges claiming that he has a $10 million bond that he used instead of car insurance, that the court did not have jurisdiction over him, and he was not required to have a valid driver鈥檚 license or registration, all claims common to the sovereign citizen movement. Datitilo only needs to pay $382.25 to clear the charges.
